Biography: Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling By Charles Allen Little, Brown, 426pp. £20No English writer has been more ardently idolised and vehemently denounced than Rudyard ...

The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling David Gilmour John Murray £22.50, pp362 The point about Kipling is that - chronologically, instinctively - he was a journalist first. Kipling ...

Every writer has his political aspect, but few merit a political biography. Rudyard Kipling, as David Gilmour demonstrates in The Long Recessional, is one of the ones who do. Not only did Kipling's ...

THE LONG RECESSIONAL: THE IMPERIAL LIFE OF RUDYARD KIPLING By David Gilmour Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 351 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY SUDIP BOSE Whatever one thinks of Rudyard Kipling’s politics ...

Forecast: Harry Ricketts's biography came out just two years ago (and is now out in paperback), but some review coverage should give an initial push to Gilmour.

Back in the Dark Ages I used to ponder the name “Kipling” twice a day whilst sitting in the little tin chapel of my English boarding school. It was etched up in faded gold leaf on the honors board ...

Posterity, it appears, still can't quite make up its mind about Rudyard Kipling. As Christopher Hitchens reminded us in his essay in the June 2002 Atlantic, "A Man of Permanent Contradictions," few ...

The author’s acclaimed biographer answered your questions about Kipling and his classic novel Kim, tackling everything from Kipling’s attitudes to the Raj, to whether Kim is the first spy novel Sadly, ...