Rudyard Kipling was a British author in the late 19th and early 20th century. He is most famous for his short story collection The Jungle Book. Kipling spent several of his early childhood and young professional years in colonial India, a setting which heavily influenced his literary style and subject matter.

Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. In his autobiography, he describes his early youth in glowing terms.