rudyard kipling

     

His stores include "The Man Who Was" and "The Man Who Would Be King"

Trivia about rudyard kipling

  • Mowgli's song "Against People" appears in this author's "Second Jungle Book"
  • Of all his works, the "Just So Stories" was reportedly his favorite
  • Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" & he wrote "The Jungle Book"
  • This author of "The Jungle Book" lived in Vermont for 4 years
  • Just so you know, "The Beginning of the Armadillos" is one of his "Just So Stories"
  • His "Jungle Book" prose begins, "It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills..."
  • "I was chokin' mad w/thirst, an' the man that spied me 1st was our good old grinnin' gruntin' Gunga Din." he wrote
  • Hurree Chunder Mookerjee is a Secret Service agent in this author's "Kim"
  • He wrote about Gunga Dass as well as Gunga Din
  • British poet who wrote, "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you"
  • It's said that this "Kim" author's autograph was so prized in the 1890s that many of his personal checks were never cashed
  • Oscar Wilde & this "Gunga Din" author both stayed in the Palace Hotel -- presumably not together
  • This author's "The Man Who Would Be King" has been called the perfect short story
  • Born in India, this English author was the youngest person to win a Nobel prize in literature
  • His 1892 collection, "Barrack-Room Ballads", included "Fuzzy Wuzzy" & "Gunga Din"
  • Bombay-born author whose 1st novel was "The Light That Failed"
  • His first "Jungle Book" was so popular that he published his "Second Jungle Book" in 1895
  • "Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you, by the livin' gawd that made you, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"
  • "Just So Stories", his 1902 collection for children, was the only book he also illustrated
  • His poems include "If" & "The Ballad of East & West"
  • He's the Bombay-born literary giant seen here
  • He returned to India at age 17 in 1882 & worked as a journalist; he published his first poems in 1886
  • In the era of colonialism, this British author wrote, "Take Up the White Man's Burden"
  • His 1892 work "Barrack-Room Ballads" included such poems as "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" & "Danny Deever"
  • To a magazine that ran his obit, this "If" poet said, "Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers"
  • He dedicated his 1888 book "Plain Tales From The Hills" "To the wittiest woman in India"
  • A wild mongoose who came into his office & sat on his shoulder inspired Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in "The Jungle Book"
  • He wrote the poem "Gunga Din" to honor the Bhisti, the natives who aided British soldiers in India
  • The Asian travels of 1944 winner Johannes Jensen got him dubbed Denmark's this British writer who won in 1907
  • In 1899 McClure's published this Brit's "The White Man's burden"
  • He wrote of the law of the jungle, "The wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die"
  • In 1907: R.K. from the U.K.