Joseph Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer and novelist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date.