Genre aficionados are fond of finding literary antecedents in unlikely places, and science fiction devotees' latest rediscovery is the Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Hugo and Nebula ...

Then the poem exclaims, “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” “If–” by Rudyard Kipling was recently voted “the most beloved poem in Great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author of one of the best-known children’s books of all time had a house in Vermont that’s open for tours this month. British ...

How the Just So Stories Were Made. By John Batchelor. Yale University Press; 240 pages; $25 and £18.99 ALREADY, IN HIS mid-30s, the Bombay-born writer Rudyard Kipling had begun to polarise the public.

It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. —George Orwell, 1942 My childhood home did not boast many literary ...

What makes fiction writers turn to fiction? Other forms of prose storytelling—essays, memoir, journalism—offer undeniable advantages, after all: immediate high stakes, flesh-and-blood characters who ...

To the 21st-century ear, the name Rudyard Kipling sounds as old-fashioned and misconceived as his paeans to the British Empire. Yet some 120 years ago, it meant high quality, excitement. The Nobel ...

Kipster, Kippington, the ol’ Kipperino … These are some of the names by which Rudyard Kipling was not known during his residency in Dummerston, Vermont. Picture an abrupt and hard-boiled little ...

The Storyteller’s Cottage, 750 Hopmeadow St., Simsbury, offers innovative programs, including literary-themed parties, author talks, writing classes for adults and children and other events promoting ...