David Gilmour is the author of many works of literary and political history, including Curzon: Imperial Statesman (FSG, 2003) and The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa. He lives in Edinburgh.
"In his entertaining and sympathetic biography . . . Gilmour portrays Kipling in all his complexity . . . He quietly dismantles the caricature of Kipling as a two-dimensional Victorian chauvinist." --Alan Riding, The New York Times"[Gilmour examines] Kipling's political consciousness . . . more deeply than any writer before him." --Gregory Feeley, The Philadelphia Inquirer"[A] formidable study . . . [Gilmour] is superb as a historian and biographer." --Robert F. Moss, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"In his entertaining and sympathetic biography . . . Gilmour portrays Kipling in all his complexity . . . He quietly dismantles the caricature of Kipling as a two-dimensional Victorian chauvinist." --Alan Riding, The New York Times"[Gilmour examines] Kipling's political consciousness . . . more deeply than any writer before him." --Gregory Feeley, The Philadelphia Inquirer"[A] formidable study . . . [Gilmour] is superb as a historian and biographer." --Robert F. Moss, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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