Mark Twain in German-Language Newspapers and Periodicals

Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Joseph Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay (today: Mumbai), but grew up in England. He is best known for writing The Jungle Book novels (1894, 1895) and for the novel Kim (1901). In 1907, he received a honorary degree from Oxford University, as did Mark Twain that same year, and at the end of the year Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (see Pinney). Kipling was a fan of Mark Twain’s works and in 1889 he went to visit Twain in Elmira, NY. In his travel book From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Kipling wrote: “I had hooked Mark Twain, and he was treating me as though under certain circumstances I might be an equal” (2:186). After that initial meeting, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling continued to exchange letters and met on several occasions throughout their lives (see Baetzhold in LeMaster and Wilson, The Mark Twain Encyclopedia 431-433). Both authors inspired each other in their writings (see Krauth 209-257).

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