On this episode of Our American Stories, Rudyard Kipling became one of the most famous writers of his age, giving the world The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, “Gunga Din,” and “If.” In 1907, he became the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. But behind that success was a life marked by an abusive childhood, controversy, and devastating loss.

The History Guy shares the story of Kipling’s remarkable rise from colonial India to literary fame, the years he spent writing in Vermont, and the deaths of two of his three children, including his son John during World War I.

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