Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, poet, journalist, and short story writer born in India. He is majorly known for his classic tale of the boy who lived in an Indian jungle raised by wolves, The Jungle Book. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 when he was only 41 and is the youngest recipient of the award to date. He was offered to be the Poet Laureate of England as well as a Knighthood but he declined both.