![]() ![]() Yet Kipling was writing at the height of the British Empire and was an extreme believer in what he called the 'White Man's Burden'. He won the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature and is the author of what has been voted Britain's favourite poem, If (1895). Born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in India in 1865 and raised in India and England, as an adult he lived briefly in the United States before returning to Britain. ![]() Rudyard Kipling is regarded as one of the world's most talented writers. Over a century after its initial publication The Jungle Book's influence is still felt: Neil Gaiman was inspired to write The Graveyard Book (2008). Controversial figure Robert Baden-Powell, former Vice-President of the Boys' Brigade, created his own splinter-group the Scouts using The Jungle Book as a guide, and this inspired Edgar Rice Burroughs to try to create his own youth organisation, 'The Tribe of Tarzan', in 1916. This story is so influential that in 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs copied the concept, made it even more right-wing, and created the character of Tarzan. Many of these stories, though not all, feature a boy named Mowgli who grows up feral in a jungle, raised by wolves. Some of these stories were at least in part inspired by stories Kipling had heard while in India. The Jungle Book is a two-volume collection of short stories originally published as The Jungle Book in 1894 and The Second Jungle Book in 1895 and written by Rudyard Kipling.
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