Inspiring Lives-10: "Rudyard Kipling's birthday : December 30"

Nobel Laureate for Literature, creator of 'Mogli' and author of 'Kim', Rudyard Kipling, was born on December 30 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.

Book on Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer from Project Gutenberg(Full-text):
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18045/18045-h/18045-h.htm

For detailed biography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Bio from:
http://www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm

Works of Kipling in Project Gutenberg: (Full text, both in 'Word' and 'Audio' files :
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/k

Full-text of Kipling's Autobiography, "Something of Myself":
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/SomethingOfMyself/myself_chap_1.html

Notes on Kipling's Autobiography, "Something of Myself":
http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_something.htm

Notes on 'Debits and Credits' (Post-war Stories of Kipling):
http://www.kipling.org.uk/bookmart_collects.htm#debits

Full-text of Kipling's Famous Poem, "If":
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm