Rudyard Kipling signed postcardAn illustrated postcard signed by the celebrated novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling 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 for Literature, and his influential works remain highly popular and in print to this day. An antique postcard