Kipling

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kipling \Kipling\ prop. n.
     Rudyard Kipling, English author (1865-1936). He was born at
     Bombay, India in 1865, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, who
     was formerly head of the Lahore School of Industrial Art. He
     was educated in England and returned to India in 1880 as
     editor of the "Lahore Civil and Military Gazette." He


     returned to England about 1889, and lived several years in
     the United States. While in India he published stories,
     sketches, and poems descriptive of India and Anglo-Indian
     military and civil life: " Departmental Ditties, etc.",
     "Plain Tales from the Hills", "Mine Own People", "Soldiers
     Three", "Barrack-room Ballads, etc.", and others. After
     leaving India he published "The Light That Failed,"
     "Naulahka" (with Balestier), "Many Inventions," "The Jungle
     Book," "The Second Jungle Book," "The Seven Seas," "Captains
     Courageous," "The White Man's Burden," "Kim," "The Man Who
     Would Be King and Other Stories," and others.
  
     Syn: Rudyard Kipling.
          [WordNet 1.5 + Century Dict. 1906]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Kipling
       n : English author of novels and poetry who was born in India
           (1865-1936) [syn: {Rudyard Kipling}, {Joseph Rudyard
           Kipling}]