Rudyard Kipling is a famous British writer and poet. He is the author of the world famous character Mowgli - a boy raised by animals in the heart of the jungle.
Childhood and education
Sir Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. His father, John Lockwood Kipling, was an illustrator and professor at a local university, and his mother, Alice, was one of the famous MacDonald sisters. The boy became the first child in the family, and two years later a girl was born.
For the first five years of his life, Rudyard lived in India, enjoying the warm sun and green nature. In 1870 he and his younger sister decided to be sent to a private boarding house in England. Children without parents moved to receive a prestigious and rigorous education. Unfortunately, the conditions at the boarding house were dire, which Alice and John did not know about. Children were beaten and punished for the slightest offenses. Rudyard Kipling at the age of 11 began to suffer from insomnia, which he wrote to his mother. Arriving from India to England and seeing with her own eyes what was happening in this educational institution, Alice urgently took the children to Devon. The 6 years spent in the boarding house were the most terrible in the life of brother and sister Kiplings. The writer suffered from sleep problems until his death, and dedicated several stories to this place. In Devon County, the future writer and poet enters a school aimed at training military personnel. However, due to vision problems, he was not destined to go into military service.
The beginning of a writing career
While studying at the Devon School, Kipling wrote his first stories. In 1882 he returned to his homeland to work there as a reporter for a local magazine and publish his works. Working as a correspondent opened the way for him to other countries, so the writer began to actively travel and draw inspiration around the world. He writes short essays from his travels, visits the USA, China, Japan, Burma (now Myanmar). His stories and essays are gaining more and more popularity, and he releases new books one by one. In 1884, at the request of the editor of the children's magazine Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, Kiplin wrote the first work aimed at young readers - "The Jungle Book", and 11 years later he published "The Second Jungle Book".
In 1890, the successful writer moved to the capital of England, where he devoted his time to work on more serious works. He publishes his first big novel, The Lights Out, then Naulakha. The collections Pak from Pooka Hill (1906) and Awards and Fairies (1910) became very popular. During the war and after it, the writer practically does not publish his works, dealing with war graves.
Personal life
At the age of 28, the writer marries the sister of his deceased comrade, Caroline Balestier. The couple had three children: two daughters and a son. Unfortunately, the eldest daughter died at the age of 7 from pneumonia, and the son died on the military front at the age of 18. Rudyard Kipling died in 1936 from an exacerbation of an ulcer from which he had suffered for 20 years. He spent his last days in London, and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
