"Rudyard Kipling is one of the finest writers of fantasy in the last one hundred years."-Ray Bradbury "Kipling has seen a perfect Odyssey of strange experiences."-Andrew Lang Rudyard Kipling (18651936) was born in Bombay, India, but was raised in England until he returned to India in 1881 as a journalist. In 1907, Kipling became the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1902), and Just So Stories (1902), which are renowned throughout the world.