The author of The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling. He was an English writer born in British India in 1865. Kipling wrote The Jungle Book , a collection of stories mostly set in the Indian jungle, which was published in 1894. The book features the adventures of a boy named Mowgli, who is raised by wolves, along with other iconic characters like Baloo the bear and Shere Khan the tiger
. Kipling also published a sequel, The Second Jungle Book , in 1895
