Genre aficionados are fond of finding literary antecedents in unlikely places, and science fiction devotees' latest rediscovery is the Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Hugo and Nebula ...

Mumbai: One's childhood days would have rarely skipped the chapters from The Jungle Book. The author of this popular book, Rudyard Kipling, was born in Mumbai on December 30, 1865. December 30, 2025, ...

Earlier this summer I was on a panel at a literary conference where I happened to say that Rudyard Kipling was a wonderful writer. Immediately, a number of people in the audience began to boo and hiss ...

Rudyard Kipling hated Chicago. “It holds rather more than a million of people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta,” wrote the man whom George Orwell dubbed “the prophet of ...

Rudyard Kipling admits in a recently-discovered letter that he may have helped himself "promiscuously" to others' work in creating the short story collection "The Jungle Book." Kipling wrote the ...

The choreographer and director Akram Khan’s reimagining of Kipling’s fable updates the message but leaves out the fun. By Brian Seibert Christopher Benfey’s “If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author of one of the best-known children’s books of all time had a house in Vermont that’s open for tours this month. British ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A letter, written by British author Rudyard Kipling in 1895, is up for auction by Anderson Autographs, the Telegraph reported. In it, Kipling confesses to it being “extremely possible” that he ...