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Rudyard Kipling

1865 – 1936

English writer and poet (1865–1936)

  • United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
  • British
  • ◆ Nobel 1907
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About

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an Indian English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Portrait by Bain News Service, publisher (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons.

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1865 – 1936
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