Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling: An English author, born in 1865, and he is considered one of the most important English writers who wrote poetry and prose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of many short stories and children's novels that are considered classics of world literature, and he also has many famous poems, and his most important works are "The Jungle Book" and "The Seven Seas". Received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.