Rudyard Kipling is a famous British writer and poet. He is the author of the world-famous character Mowgli - a boy raised by animals in the heart of the jungle.
Childhood and education
Sir Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. His father, John Lockwood Kipling, was an illustrator and professor at a local university, and his mother, Alice, was one of the famous MacDonald sisters. The boy became the first child in the family, and two years later a girl was born.
The first five years of his life, Rudyard lived in India, enjoying the warm sun and green nature. In 1870, he and his younger sister decided to send to a private boarding house in England. Children without parents moved to receive a prestigious and rigorous education. Unfortunately, the conditions in the boarding house were horrific, which Alice and John did not know about. Children were beaten and punished for the slightest misconduct. Rudyard Kipling at the age of 11 began to suffer from insomnia, about which he wrote to his mother. Arriving from India to England and seeing with her own eyes what is happening in this educational institution, Alice urgently took the children to Devon County. 6 years spent in a boarding house were the most terrible in the life of Kipling's brother and sister. The writer suffered from sleep problems until his death, and dedicated several stories to this place. In Devon County, the future writer and poet enters a school aimed at training military personnel. However, due to vision problems, he was not destined to go into military service.
The beginning of the career of a writer
Even during his studies at the Devon School, Kipling wrote his first stories. In 1882, he returned to his homeland to work there as a reporter in a local magazine and publish his works. His work as a correspondent opened the way for him to other countries, so the writer began to travel actively and draw inspiration from all over the world. He writes short essays from his trips, visits the United States, China, Japan, Burma (currently Myanmar). His stories and essays are becoming increasingly popular, and he is publishing new books one by one. In 1884, at the request of the editor of the children's magazine Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, Kiplin wrote the first work aimed at young readers - The Jungle Book, and after 11 years published the Second Jungle Book.
In 1890, a successful writer moved to the capital of England, where he devotes his time to working on more serious works. He publishes his first big novel, “The Light Is Off, ” then “Naulakha.” The collections "Pak from Puka Hill" (1906) and "Awards and Fairies" (1910) became very popular. During and after the war, the writer practically does not publish his works, being engaged in military burials.
