Short answers, pulled from the story.
Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, making him the first English-language recipient. At age 41 he was also the youngest recipient to that date. The award ceremony was held in Stockholm on the 10th of December 1907.
Kipling began writing the stories that became The Jungle Book in a workroom seven feet by eight at Bliss Cottage, a rented property near Brattleboro, Vermont. The first ideas took shape during the winter of 1892, and the books were completed after the family moved to their own house, Naulakha, on a hillside overlooking the Connecticut River.
John Kipling was killed at the Battle of Loos in September 1915 at age 18. He had been accepted into the Irish Guards through his father's friendship with Lord Roberts after twice being rejected for military service due to poor eyesight. In 2015 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission confirmed his burial place at St Mary's A.D.S. Cemetery, Haisnes, recording his date of death as the 27th of September 1915.
Kipling chose the biblical phrase "Their Name Liveth For Evermore" (from Sirach 44:14) for the Stones of Remembrance in the larger Commonwealth war cemeteries. He also suggested "Known unto God" for the gravestones of unidentified servicemen, and chose "The Glorious Dead" for the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London.
Kipling's ashes are interred at Poets' Corner in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, next to the graves of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in north-west London following his death on the 18th of January 1936.
"If," first published in 1910 in the collection Rewards and Fairies, was voted the United Kingdom's favourite poem in a 1995 BBC opinion poll. The poem is an exhortation to self-control and stoicism and is widely considered Kipling's most famous single work.