Puck of Pook's Hill, Paperback Book, By: Rudyard Kipling

About the Author: Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life he settled in the latter in 1889 published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro Vermont where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.