Kipling’s portrait is in public domain; it was used as frontispiece to the biography Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer, first published in New York by Henry Holt and Co. in 1915; the full text of the biography available here (accessed: June 28, 2018).
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
, 1865 - 1936
Born in Bombay, India, educated in England at the United Services College in Westward Ho! At the age sixteen he returned to India, to Lahore where his parents then lived, to work as journalist in local English newspapers and write poems and short stories. After seven years, he was back in England already as a successful writer. Married an American, Caroline Balestier, in 1892, travelled with her extensively and then settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where his two daughters were born and he continued writing there (among others The Jungle Books). After the birth of his daughter Josephine in 1892, Kipling started writing for children. In 1896, the Kiplings went back to England and lived in Rottingdean, Sussex. Their son was born in 1897; Josephine died in 1899 during a family trip to America. Kipling’s fame was already well established in English speaking countries and beyond. In 1902, seeking a quieter life, they moved to the Bateman’s, a country house in Sussex. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His son John died early during WW1 (1915) and Kipling became active in the Imperial War Graves Commission striking a close friendship with King George V. He died in 1936, his autobiography written in 1935, Something of Myself, was published posthumously by his widow; she died in 1940.
Sources:
The Kipling Society's website (accessed: June 28, 2018).
The Kipling Society lists at their site 14 Kipling’s biographies publ. between 1930 and 1999 (accessed: June 28, 2018); see also Winston Churchill’s Great Contemporaries, ed. by James W. Muller. Ed. pr. London: Butterworth, 1937 (Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2012) 418–424.
Profile at the BBC website (accessed: June 28, 2018).
Profile at the Nobelprize.com (accessed: June 28, 2018).
Bio prepared by Elżbieta Olechowska, University of Warsaw, elzbieta.olechowska@gmail.com
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