Short biography of Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond was born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh , on 19th May, 1934.But he grew up in shimla,Jamnagar,Dehradun and Mussoorie.He was the son of Anglo-Indian parents,Aurbey Alexander Bond and Edith Dorothy Clerke.By the age of  ten,he had experienced living with Princes and Princesses in Gujarat.He was studing in a boarding school in Dehradun.Even though ,he was an average student in terms of academics.After completing his schooling ,he went to England for further education.There he completed and published his first novel.He spent four years in England,but his heart was back in India where he was born and spent some of his dearest days.

He is the significant character in English literature.Ruskin Bond has written over 500 short stories and articles  that have appeared in a number of magazines. His novel, The Flight of Pigeons was adapted into a movie, Junoon.

His first novel was “The Room On The Roof”,written when he was seventeen.Ruskin Bond is considered as one of the greatest Indian authors of the English language. . Best known as a children’s story writer, Ruskin Bond has dabbled in a variety of genres, from ghost stories to ‘odes to nature’ to unrequited love stories. His writing career brought him fame, honours and a number of awards, including the Sahitya Academy Award (1992), Padma Shri (1991), Padma Bhushan (2014).