Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling - Hardcover

Charles Allen prefers to focus exclusively on the glory years preceding Kipling's final return to England in 1900, at age 35, and on the vital Indian experience that provided the raw material for so many of his best-loved works, including the Jungle Book short-story collections and the novel Kim...The book offers a vivid and fully rounded picture of the emotional and physical context of Kipling's apprenticeship as a writer....engaging and colorful. (Wall Street Journal) "

[A] brilliantly insightful biographical study.... [Allen] is equally sound on all important aspects of Kipling. (Los Angeles Times, Martin Rubin) "

Traces the formative years during which the classic author worked in India on The Civil and Military Gazette and established his literary career, offering insight into his love of the region, his unhappy childhood in England, and the influence of Indian culture of his writings.