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Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 at age 42, the youngest ever. He wrote The Jungle Book while living in Vermont and composed Kim and the Just So Stories. After his son John was killed in World War I, he worked for the War Graves Commission and wrote the inscription 'A soldier of the Great War–Known Unto God'.