Rudyard Kipling Wrote the jungle book story. First book was published in 1894, followed by second book in 1895.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay Presidency, British India on December 30, 1865.
He won the Nobel Prize in the year 1907 as the first English-language writer to have received the honour.
Some of his notable works are – The Jungle Book, Kim, The White Man’s Burden, The Man Who Would Be King, and more.
Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers.
Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.
Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age.