Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. He was educated in England but returned to India in 1882. Kipling wrote in a variety of genres, including short fiction, poetry and children's books. Short story collections include Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) and The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales (1888) featuring The Man Who Would Be King. Notable poems are Gunga Din (1890), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). His very successful children's fiction includes The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and Just So Stories for Little Children (1902). Kipling was the recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 1936.