Rudyard Kipling Born: Dec. 30, 1865
Died: Jan. 18, 1936 Born the son of John Lockwood Kip- ling, a teacher at the Jeejeebhoy School of Art, and Alice Macdonald Kipling in Bombay, India. His care was entrusted to his ayah who taught him Hindustani in the nursery. At six he was taken to England by his parents and for five years was left at a foster home in Southsea where he hated his treatment and his situation. In 1878 Kipling entered United Services College, a boarding school in Devon. Kipling returned to India in 1882, where he worked as a journalist in Lahore for the ‘Civil and Military Gazette' and an assistant editor and overseas correspondent in Allahabad for the ‘Pioneer'. His literary career began with ‘Departmental Ditties' in 1886, but he became better known as a writer of short stories. Stories written during his years in India were collected in the anthology ‘The Phantom Rickshaw'. Kipling wrote prolifically and achieved fame quickly. In 1889 he returned to England and published ‘Life's Handicap' in 1891, and ‘Barrack- Room Ballads', which included ‘Gunga Din'. In 1892 Kipling married Caroline Starr Balestier, the sister of an American publisher, and moved to the United States. After the death of his daughter Josephine, however, he took his family back to England and settled in Burwash, Sussex. He published ‘The Jungle Book' in 1894, ‘Captains Courageous' in 1897, ‘Kim' in 1901, and ‘Just So Stories' 1902 among many others. He was regarded as unofficial poet laureate since he refused that and many other honours, among them the Order of Merit. In 1907 Kipling became a Nobel Laureate in Literature. His young son, John, was killed at the Battle of Loos during World War I, and in response Kipling joined the Imperial War Graves Commission, contributing to the project the Biblical quote: 'Their Name Liveth For Evermore' which was inscribed on Stones of Remembrance over war graves. In 1923 Kipling published ‘The Irish Guards in the Great War', a history of his son's regiment, but his output of fiction and poetry declined. He served as a rector at the University of St. Andrews from 1922 to 1925. In 1926 Kipling was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature which had been awarded only three times before. Kipling wrote until the early 1930s, but at a slow- er pace and with less success than previously. He died from a brain haemorrhage at the age of 70. His autobiography, ‘Something of Myself', was published posthumously in 1937. After the death of Kipling's widow in 1939, his house in Sussex was bequeathed to the National Trust and is now a museum dedicated to the author.
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream and not make dreams your master, If you can think and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
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