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Authors | Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 ??? January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the children's story The Jungle Book (1894), the Indian spy novel Kim (1901), the poems "Gunga Din" (1892), "If??? " (1895), and his many short stories.

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