Name Wolcott Balestier Role Writer | Siblings Caroline Balestier Nephews John Kipling | |
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Books The Naulahka, Benefits Forgot, James G. Blaine: A Sketch of His Life, with a Brief Record of the Life of John A. Logan Nieces Elsie Bambridge, Josephine Kipling People also search for Caroline Balestier, Rudyard Kipling, John Kipling | ||
Wolcott Balestier (December 13, 1861 – December 6, 1891, in Rochester, New York) was an American writer and editor notable primarily through his connection to Rudyard Kipling.
His first work was a novel entitled A Patent Philter, which was published serially in the daily New York Tribune in 1884. In 1886, he published A Victorious Defeat. Together with Rudyard Kipling he published The Naulahka posthumously in 1892.
Balestier died in 1891, a victim of typhoid fever. That same year, his sister Carrie Balestier married Kipling.
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