On this date in 1865 -- Birthday of Rudyard Kipling (storyteller, poet)

from Writer's Almanac (list serv from Garrison Keillor, Minnesota Public Radio)

It's the birthday of Rudyard Kipling, born in Bombay, India (1865). Though he'd never fought in battle, his poems about military life became classics among British soldiers around the world. When he finally moved to Vermont after the war, he began to re-imagine the India of his childhood and wrote The Jungle Book (1894), about a boy raised by wolves in the jungle.


Rudyard Kipling said, 'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.'