Rudyard Kipling handwritten manuscript poemA unique handwritten, signed manuscript copy of Rudyard Kipling's 1901 poem The Young Queen Written to commemorate the consolidation of Australian Crown Colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936) was an English writer and poet whose most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), The Man Who Would Be King (1888) and If (1910). In 1907 Kipling became the first English language writer awarded the Nobel Prize