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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 30 December 1865
- Died
- 18 January 1936
- Place of birth
- Mumbai
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Kipling
- Father
- John Lockwood Kipling
- Mother
- Alice MacDonald Kipling
- Spouse
- Caroline Starr Balestier
- Sibling
- Alice Macdonald Fleming, John Kipling
- Field of work
- literature, creative and professional writing, journalism, poetry, travel literature, children's and young adult literature
- Occupation
- writer, poet, novelist, war correspondent, children's writer, autobiographer, screenwriter, journalist, science fiction writer, prose writer, traveler, librettist
- Position held
- Rector of the University of St Andrews
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Lektorix, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris, honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg, honorary degree
- archives at
- University of Leeds Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sussex Library, University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives, Harry Ransom Center
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library
- birth name
- Joseph Rudyard Kipling
- cause of death
- ulcer
- date of burial or cremation
- 21 January 1936, 23 January 1936
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, BEIC Digital Library, Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology, Iedereen Leest, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, The New Student's Reference Work, ProDetLit
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- United Services College
- employer
- University of St Andrews
- end of work period
- 1932
- has works in the collection
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- influenced by
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- list of works
- Rudyard Kipling bibliography
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Joseph Rudyard Kipling
- named after
- Rudyard Lake
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature
- notable work
- The Jungle Book, Kim, If—, The Second Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Gunga Din
- personal library at
- Bateman's, British Library
- place of burial
- Westminster Abbey, Golders Green Crematorium
- relative
- Catherine Pullein
- start of work period
- 1886
- topic's main category
- Category:Rudyard Kipling
- writing language
- English
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