 There are a few things you should know about Rudyard Kipling. Just over a hundred years ago, he was the most popular writer in the world, and to this day, the youngest author ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The second thing? He was an unabashed imperialist. Born in the heart of the British Empire in India, he wrote the notorious poem, The White Man's Burden, which called on the U.S. to colonize the Philippines.