Carrington, Charles C. Rudyard Kipling.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955.
This book is the standard biography of Kipling and demonstrates the relationship between the author's life and his work.
Dobree, Bonamy. Rudyard Kipling: Realist and Fabulist. London: Oxford University Press, 1967. This book explores Kipling's central themes and deals with the problem of his colonialist ideas.
Gilbert, Eliott, ed. Kipling and His Critics. New York: New York University Press, 1965. This work reviews the first critical responses to Kipling's work.
Rao, K. Bhaskara. "Rudyard Kipling." In Critical Survey of.....
