Booklist – Biographies and Letters

Author	Title	Publisher	Location	Year	Notes
Adams, Jad	Rudyard Kipling	Haus Books	London	2006
Birkenhead, Lord	Rudyard Kipling	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	London	1978	Biography suppressed for some ten years by Elsie Bambridge and only published after her death and that of the author.
Braddy, Nella	Rudyard Kipling	Julian Mesner Inc.	New York City	1941	Illustrated biography aimed at children.
Brown, Hilton	Rudyard Kipling: A New Appreciation	Hamish Hamilton	London	1945	Foreword by Frank Swinnerton.
Carrington, Charles	Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work	Macmillan & Co.	London	1955	The rare 3rd. Edition of 1978 contains appendices not available in other editions.
Chevrillon, André	Rudyard Kipling	Librairie Plon	Paris	1936	Paperback.
Cross, Thomas N.	East and West; Biography of Rudyard Kipling	Luckystone Press	Ann Arbor, MI	1992
Fido, Martin	Rudyard Kipling	Hamlyn	London	1974	Very well illustrated.
Gilbert, Elliott L, (Ed.)	Oh Beloved Kids	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	London	1983	Letters to his children including Kipling's drawings
Gilmour, David	The Long Recessional	John Murray	London	2002	The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling'.
Hopkins, R Thurston	Rudyard Kipling's World	Robert Holden	London	1916
Hutchinson, Geoff	Kipling	Geoff Hutchinson		1988	Brief illustrated account for children. Paperback.
Keating, Peter	Kipling the Poet	Secker & Warburg	London	1994
Kennedy, Rosalind & Pinney, Thomas	Kipling Down Under	XLIBRIS	USA	2000	Rudyard Kipling's Visit to Australia, 1891: A Narrative with Documents.
Kernahan, Coulson	Nothing Quite Like Kipling Had Happened Before	Epworth Press	London	1944	Brief reminiscences published posthumously.
Lemonnier, Leon	Kipling	Editions Jules Tallandier	Paris	1939	Popular biography in French. Paperback.
Laski, Marghanita	From Palm to Pine, Rudyard Kipling at Home and Abroad	Sidgwick and Jackson	London	1987
LeFanu, Sarah	Something of Themselves	Hurst	London	2020	Kipling, Mary Kingsley, and Conan Doyle in South Africa, during the Anglo-Boer War.
Lewins, Jeffrey D.	Kipling and his 'Coll'	Magdalene College	Cambridge	1993	Pamphlet.
Lycett, Andrew	Rudyard Kipling	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	London	1999
Lycett, Andrew	Rudyard Kipling	Phoenix	London	2000	Paperback edition
Macdonald, Meryl	The Long Trail - Kipling Round the World	Tideway House	Bristol	1999
Mallett, Philip	Rudyard Kipling, a Literary Life	Palgrave Macmillan	London	2003
Mason, Philip	Kipling - The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire	Jonathan Cape	London	1975	Having loved Kipling as a child, disliked him as a student, then ignored him for thirty years Mason (ex-ICS) documents his return to him in retirement.
Pinney, Thomas	See Rosalind Kennedy above..
Pinney, Thomas (Ed.)	Letters of Rudyard Kipling (Vol 1) 1872-89	Macmillan		1990
Pinney, Thomas (Ed.)	Letters of Rudyard Kipling (Vol 2) 1890-99	Macmillan		1990
Pinney, Thomas (Ed.)	Letters of Rudyard Kipling (Vol 3) 1900-1910	Macmillan		1996
Pinney, Thomas (Ed.)	Letters of Rudyard Kipling (Vol 4) 1911-1919	Macmillan		1999
Pinney, Thomas (Ed.)	Letters of Rudyard Kipling (Vols 5 and 6) 1920-1936	Macmillan		2004
Pinney, Thomas, and Richards, David Alan	Kipling and his First Publisher	Rivendale Press		2001
Pinney, Thomas (Ed.)	Kipling's India, Uncollected Sketches 1884 to 1888	Macmillan		1986
Pinney, Thomas (Ed.)	Something of Myself and other autobiographical writings	Cambridge U. Press		1990	Includes My First Book, "Baa Baa Black Sheep", "An English School", and Kipling's 1885 diary: annotated
Ponton, Dorothy	Rudyard Kipling at Home and at Work	Privately published		1952	Author was governess to Elsie and after 1919 secretary to Kipling. Paperback.
Ricketts, Harry	The Unforgiving Minute - A Life of Rudyard Kipling	Chatto & Windus	London	1999
Seymour-Smith, Martin	Rudyard Kipling	Macdonald	London	1989
Stewart, J.I.M.	Rudyard Kipling	Victor Gollancz	London	1966
Sutcliffe, Rosemary	Rudyard Kipling	Bodley Head	London	1960	A Bodley Head monograph aimed at children.
Wilson, Angus	The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling	Secker & Warburg	London	1977	'His Life and Works'
Mallett, Phillip	Rudyard Kipling, A Literary Life	Palgrave Macmillan		2003
Stewart, D	Kipling’s America			2003
Lycett, Andrew	Rudyard Kipling			2015
Holt, Tonie and Valmai	My Boy Jack?: the Search for Kipling’s Only Son	Pen & Sword Military		2009
Nicolson, Adam	The Hated Wife Carrie Kipling 1862-1939	London. Short Books		2001
Flanders, Judith	A Circle of Sisters	Penguin		2002
Montefiore, Jan	Rudyard Kipling	Northcote House	Tavistock	2007	An excellent introduction.