Rudyard Kipling
Personal information
- Known for
- Writing
- Known credits
- 75
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- December 30, 1865
- Died
- January 18, 1936
- Place of birth
- Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
- Also known as
- Joseph Rudyard KiplingДжозеф Редьярд Киплинг
Biography
Born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, a museum director and author and illustrator. This was at the height of the "British Raj", so he was brought up by Indian nurses ("ayahs"), who taught him something of the beliefs and tongues of India. He was sent "home" to England at the age of six to live with a foster mother, who treated him very cruelly.
