Kipling, Rudyard

Kipling, Rudyard( 1865–1936),
British poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, came to the U.S. (1889) via California, resided for several years after 1892 at Brattleboro, Vt., with his brother-in-law Wolcott Balestier, with whom he wrote The Naulahka (1892), but with whom he later quarreled. Captains Courageous (1897) is Kipling's own work concerned with the American scene.