Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of December 30th.
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It is the 364th day of the year, leaving one day remaining in 2021.
Kipling remains a controversial story teller. Born in India at the height of British colonialism, educated in Southsea, England, and a world traveler who lived part of his life in Brattlesboro, Vermont, in the United States, he has been condemned as a propagandist for "brazen-faced imperialism," and as one who gave warnings on the perils of empire.
He is the author of the novels Captain Courageous and Kim, dozens of short stories and collections, including the Jungle Book series, The Man Who Would be King, and Plain Tales from the HIlls, his first short story collection. His poems include If, Gunga Din, and The White Man's Burden, perhaps his most controversial work.
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
He is widely considered to be one of the finest writers in the English language, whose books and poems are still taught today, and as one who "excelled at telling a story but was inconsistent in producing balanced, cohesive novels," as the encyclopedia Britannica put it.
He died in 1936 at his home in London
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