(December 30,1865,

Bombay -
January 18,1936, London)
 John Kipling, the writer’s father, finished Art School in
London. In 1862 he had to began his work in Beasley. There
he met his future wife, Alice Macdonald.
 John agreed to go to India, Bombay to teach students in Art
school. Married in London, John and Alice Kipling sailed to India. It
was in May, 1865.
On the 30-th of December, 1865, their son was born. They
called him Rudyard.
 The Kiplings became very
popular in Bombay. Except
teaching, John was a correspondent
in one of the powerful newspapers.
Alice wrote for different papers and
magazines. Their house was
surrounded by the wonderful
garden, a lot of service-men served
them.
There were two kids in their
family, Rudyard and his younger
sister Alice. Kipling remembered his
early childhood as “the time of
cloudless happiness”.
 When Rudyard was six, parents sent him and his sister to
England, to study at English school. They lived in a captain
Holloway family. When in 1874 the captain died, his wife became
very angry with Ruddy and treated him badly.
His life was very unhappy. The only joy was reading. But
when MrsHolloway had known about it, she began taking the
books away from him.
 Rudyard’s mother took her children away to London when
she heard about it. It was in 1877. They lived some months at
her sister’s place.
When Rudyard was 23 he wrote a story about his life in
Holloways family. He hated their home forever.
 From 1778 Kipling studied at another school and finished it in
1882. He went to India, to his parents. His father was a famous
person in Lahore, and their house looked like a palace.
 Rudyard began
to work in the evening
paper as an editor
assistant. This work
helped him to begin
write and publish his
first works, it gave him
good knowledge of
India.
 During 1886-1887 Rudyard published thirty-five stories
about India. His family discussed them and it was decided to
publish them as a book. This book was published in 1888
under the name “Stories from the Mountains”. It brought him
the first fame.
His parents had
no doubts: their
son would be
famous writer
and poet.
Soon he
became famous
both in India
and England.
 His book with the best poems and stories was published
in 1889 in England. He came back there through Far East
and the USA. During the journey he wrote one more book
“From Sea to Sea”, which was full of humour.
 Rudyard Kipling married on the 18-th of January, 1892. His
first daughter Josefina was born in 1893. Their second daughter
Elsie was born in 1896, and their son John was born in 1897. But
in 1899 their first daughter died.
 Rudyard Kipling and his family lived in the USA some
years. Here he wrote his “Books of Jungle” – the most
famous book about Maugli. And here he began to write his
witty stories about how and why things came to be as they
are – originally he told them to his own children.
They were published in 1902 under the name “Just So
Stories”. These tales were beautifully illustrated in black-and-
white by the author.
In 1907 he became the first Englishman awarded by the Nobel prize.
Rudyard Kipling died on the 18-th of January 1936.