Red Dog (Kipling short story) Red Dog (Kipling short story) "Red Dog" is a Mowgli story by Rudyard Kipling. Written at Kipling's home in Brattleboro, Vermont between February and March 1895, it was first published as "Good Hunting: A Story of the Jungle" in "The Pall Mall Gazette" for July 29 and 30 1895 and "McClure's Magazine" for August 1895 before appearing under its definitive title as the 7th and penultimate story in "The Second Jungle Book" later the same year. It was also the penultimate Mowgli story to be written. Mowgli the feral child is about 16 years old and living contentedly with his
Rudyard Kipling solve the problem of his English readers not understanding much about Indian society, when writing "The Jungle Book". Heinlein's novel "Starship Troopers" built on the citizen soldiers of "The Army of a Dream". In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after having been nominated in that year by Charles Oman, professor at the University of Oxford. The prize citation said: "In consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." Nobel prizes had been established in 1901 and Kipling was the