Rudyard Kipling (18651937) was born in Bombay. His father John Lockwood was the author of Beast and Man in India. Kipling too later came to be known for his accounts of India under British rule. In 1871 Rudyard and his younger sister were sent to England, and had been there for seven unhappy years under the guardianship of an elderly relative at Southsea. In 1878 he joined the United Services College, and started writing. At the age of seventeen Kipling came to India again, this time to become a journalist. His Indian experience provided Kipling with a rich store of material, including seven volumes of stories, among which The Jungle Books is most wellknown. It was while staying in Vermont in the years following his marriage in 1892, that Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, which brought him instant success. Kipling was a master storyteller, and The Jungle Books (1894) has been one of his most popular collection of stories about the feats and experiences of Mowgli, a human child, who is
