Kipling continued to write and became involved in the Imperial War Graves Commission. In 1915, his son John died in the battle of Loos, during World War I. In 1907, Kipling accepted the Nobel Prize for literature. Around this time Kipling was deemed the “Poet of Empire” and produced some his most memorable works, including Kim, Stalky & Co., and Just So Stories. Unfortunately their daughter, Josephine, died during a family visit to the U.S. The family moved to England in 1896 and settling in Rottingdean, Sussex the next year. There he wrote Captains Courageous and The Jungle Books, and Carrie gave birth to their first two children, Josephine and Elsie. In 1892, he married an American, Carrie Balestier, sister of his dear friend and sometimes partner, Wolcott Balestier, and settled with her in Vermont. Kipling returned again to England in 1889 where he gained fame and credibility with his publication of Barrack-Room Ballads. At sixteen Kipling returned to his parents in India and worked on the Civil and Military Gazette, also writing and publishing a number of poems and stories. Kipling lived happily in India until he was six, when his father sent him back to England to study. This famous writer was born Joseph Rudyard Kipling in Bombay on December 30th, 1865, after his mother Alice Macdonald, a methodist minister’s daughter, and his father John Lockwood Kipling, an artist, moved there so John could work as the director of an art school. – Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” Biography Image by Soerfm/Public Domain
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