Click here to visit Ben Freer's Rudyard Kipling site, packed full of interesting information for the novice Kipling admirer. At this site, you'll find a good biography, a list of his works (both prose and poetry, with full online copies of Kim, The Jungle Book, and Just So Stories), a short list of links, a search engine, and on your way out-take a quiz on the famous author. A fun site to visit.

The Victorian Web: Rudyard Kipling
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/kipling/kiplingov.html

Created by Brown University's George P. Landow, this site features a large variety of material about the famous author. From the political and social history of Kipling's time, to themes and literary relations of Kipling's works, this site is a wealth of good information.

The Kipling Society Web Site
http://www.kipling.org.uk/

This official site, maintained with permission from the National Trust, has a vast array of information on the famous poet/writer. Among these, make sure you check out the excellent biography, the "Kipling Chronology," the "Kipling File," and an impressive gallery of photos of the author.

Looksmart.com: Rudyard Kipling
http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus52213/eus54535/eus166639/eus166678/eus540886/eus530501/r?l&

Are you discovering that you are a big fan of Kipling? Then this page in "Looksmart.com's" search directory is the place for you. Click here to view 25 or more links to all manner of Kipling-related subjects, from a full text version (with photos) of the author's most celebrated short story "How the Leopard Got His Spots," to your browsing of a complete collection of his verse poetry. A page created for the true Kipling fan.

BIOGRAPHY
(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (b. 1865) was born in Bombay, but at the age of five was sent by his parents to live at a foster home in England. Kipling disliked England, and, while at the United Services College, spent most of his time writing the poems that would comprise his first book, Schoolboy Lyrics (1881). In the following year Kipling returned to India where he found his true inspiration. He began working for an Anglo-Indian newspaper named The Civil and Military Gazette, and during this time Kipling wrote a variety of short stories and poems. In 1886 Kipling published the collection of poems Departmental Ditties and the short story collection Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, establishing him as a well-known author. Kipling married Caroline Balesteir in 1892 and moved to Vermont where he wrote the children's classic The Jungle Book (1894). After the birth of Kipling's daughters Josephine and Elsie the Kipling family moved back to England, where, despite his unpleasant experience as a child, he spent the rest of his life. Tragically, Josephine died accidentally in 1899 on a family vacation, an event that some critics site as a major turning point in Kipling's artistic vision. Shortly afterward Kipling published two of his most famous works, the novel Kim in 1901 and Just So Stories for Little Children in 1902. Kipling continued to write, publishing over 100 books in his lifetime, and in 1907 was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature. In 1936 Kipling wrote his autobiography, Something of Myself, and died the same year following an intestinal hemorrhage.