Rudyard Kipling
                         1865--1936
                   Rudyard Kipling was born in India in the year 1865. Kipling was an English author, whose popular works interpret India in many ways. Some of his work was romantic like his poems, "Mandalay," "Gunga Din," and "Recessional." Other famous poems of his are in: "Department Ditties," and " Barrak-Room Ballads." His famous stories include: "Plain Tales From the Hills," "Soldiers Three," ,"The Light That Failed," and children stories such as,"The Jungle Book," "Captains Courageous," and "Kim." In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize in literature.

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