Rudyard Kipling was a famous English writer, poet and 1 ... (NOVEL). He was born in Bombay, India, in December 1865. He was named after Lake Rudyard where his parents met each other. Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling, was an 2 ... (ART) and he had an influence on his son's work. Much of Rudyard's 3 ... (CHILD) was unhappy. He was taken to England by his parents at the age of six and was left for five years at a foster home at Southsea, the horrors of which he described in the story "Baa Baa, Black Sheep" (1888). When he was 12, he was sent to study at a 4 ... (PRIVACY) school in Devon. Unfortunately, he couldn't continue his education in a 5 ...(PRESTIGE) military academy because of poor eyesight. So, he had to choose another path. Having read his school stories, Rudyard's father found a job of a journalist for him in 6 ... (BRITAIN) India. Apart from being a 7 ... (JOURNAL), Kipling wrote short stories and poems in his free time.