If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years

Traces Kipling's deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous

Author(s): Christopher E. G. Benfey
Published: 2019
Pages: 258
Categories: Biography & Autobiography