Amazon.com description: Product Description: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English author and poet. Kipling was born in Bombay, British India. Many of his works have an Indian flavor and setting. His best known works are The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902). Kipling is the youngest author to receive a Nobel Prize. Kipling wrote two connected story and poetry collections. Puck on Pooh’s Hill was published in 1906 and four years later Rewards and fairies.