Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. He was educated in England but returned to India in 1882. In 1892, Kipling married Caroline Balestier and settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he wrote The Jungle Book and Gunga Din. Eventually becoming the highest paid writer in the world, Kipling was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. He died in 1936. His novel, The Jungle Book, was adapted into a movie by Jon Farveau in 2016.