Dec. 30: Rudyard Kipling, Indian-born English writer

BORN DECEMBER 30:

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Indian-born English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, whose "children's books" say more than many "adult books" these days; The Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Kim; Captains Courageous; poems "If—"; "Gunga Din"; "The White Man's Burden"; Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)

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