Who wrote The Jungle Book?

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Who wrote The Jungle Book?

Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. It’s a collection of animal stories set in the Indian jungle, featuring characters like Mowgli and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, first published in the 1890s. Kipling was an English author who spent part of his life in India, and this work is one of his most famous creations. The other authors listed are known for different kinds of writing—Hardy for Victorian novels about English life, Shakespeare for plays from the Elizabethan era, and Austen for early 19th-century social novels—so Kipling is the correct author.

Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. It’s a collection of animal stories set in the Indian jungle, featuring characters like Mowgli and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, first published in the 1890s. Kipling was an English author who spent part of his life in India, and this work is one of his most famous creations. The other authors listed are known for different kinds of writing—Hardy for Victorian novels about English life, Shakespeare for plays from the Elizabethan era, and Austen for early 19th-century social novels—so Kipling is the correct author.

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