Genre aficionados are fond of finding literary antecedents in unlikely places, and science fiction devotees' latest rediscovery is the Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Hugo and Nebula ...

Earlier this summer I was on a panel at a literary conference where I happened to say that Rudyard Kipling was a wonderful writer. Immediately, a number of people in the audience began to boo and hiss ...

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is one of the best known and, especially in his day, most popular of English poets and fiction writers. Born in India, which he always considered his native land, Kipling ...

Born in Bombay (now Mumbai) during the first decade of the British Raj, the English novelist and poet has come to embody the colonial enterprise, though his love of India wends through many of his ...

Rudyard Kipling’s creations in verse and prose are among the most familiar in the English language. It would be difficult to shield a child in any Anglophone country from Mowgli’s exploits among the ...

One of the great joys of life, as many parents can attest, is reading to one’s children. Entered upon with imaginative openness and sensitivity, and provided the book is good, this shared experience ...

Rudyard Kipling admits in a recently-discovered letter that he may have helped himself "promiscuously" to others' work in creating the short story collection "The Jungle Book." Kipling wrote the ...

Two long-overlooked watercolors were identified as rare original 1903 Jungle Book illustrations. Only six of the 16 commissioned originals by the Detmold brothers are known to survive. The ...

A rare watercolor illustration from The Jungle Book, painted by a pair of precocious siblings, is now on display at Rudyard Kipling’s family home, 130 years after the publication of his timeless story ...

The Return of the Buffalo Herd, painted by Edward and Charles Detmold, hangs at Bateman's in East Sussex in honor of the book's 130th anniversary. National Trust Images / James Dobson An original ...