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Rudyard Kipling

1865 - 1936

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899) and "If—" (1910). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudyard Kipling is the 170th most popular writer (down from 142nd in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from India (down from 19th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Indian Writer.

Rudyard Kipling is most famous for his book The Jungle Book, which was published in 1894. It is a collection of stories, written in verse, about a boy named Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle.

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Among writers, Rudyard Kipling ranks 170 out of 7,302. Before him are Elias Canetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Novalis, Heinrich Böll, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Walter Scott. After him are Pindar, Nicolas Flamel, André Breton, Wisława Szymborska, William Faulkner, and Anna Wintour.

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Among people born in 1865, Rudyard Kipling ranks 4. Before him are George V, Jean Sibelius, and Pieter Zeeman. After him are Erich Ludendorff, Archduke Otto of Austria, Ferdinand I of Romania, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Arthur Harden, Warren G. Harding, W. B. Yeats, and Carl Nielsen. Among people deceased in 1936, Rudyard Kipling ranks 5. Before him are George V, Ivan Pavlov, Maxim Gorky, and Federico García Lorca. After him are Lu Xun, Róbert Bárány, Grazia Deledda, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Luigi Pirandello, Lev Kamenev, and Oswald Spengler.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rudyard Kipling ranks 25 out of 1,861. Before him are Patanjali (-200), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), and Shah Rukh Khan (1965). After him are Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Razia Sultana (1205), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Jamsetji Tata (1839), Vivien Leigh (1913), and Ānanda (-600).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Rudyard Kipling ranks 4. Before him are George Orwell (1903), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), and Kālidāsa (400). After him are Valmiki (-80), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Salman Rushdie (1947), Ghalib (1797), Jim Corbett (1875), Tulsidas (1532), Savitribai Phule (1831), and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811).

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