Something of Myself
Kipling last book, unfinished at his death, guarded about his private life and remarkably open about craft, including the Daemon he credited for his best work.
Kipling’s autobiography, written in his final year and left unfinished at his death, is guarded about his private life and remarkably open about craft. The chapters on how he worked, and on the Daemon he credited for his best writing, are why writers still read it. His wife edited and published the manuscript after his death.
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Maria Popova
In the final year of his sixties, not knowing he would not live another — how cruel and how merciful that only hindsight knows each last — Kipling began setting down all he knew about writing, lensed through the story of his unusual life. He worked on the manuscript tirelessly until just before his seventieth birthday. Days later, he suffered a hemorrhage from which he never recovered. His wife edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Something of Myself: For My Friends Known and Unknown (public domain).
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