This author of "The Man Who Would Be King" wrote a collection including "The Cat That Walked by Himself" and "How the Camel Got His Hump," and another story ends with the title character emerging from a rat hole announcing the deaths of Nag and Nagaina, a pair of cobras.
One of this author's stories ends with the narrator hearing from the Superintendent of the Asylum that a man who was suffering from sunstroke died without anything in his possession; that man had earlier been singing "The Son of Man goes forth to war, / A golden crown to gain." In one of this author's stories, the title character kills Karait, after which Teddy's father beats Karait's dead body and hugs his son, and another story tells of the ex-soldiers Dravot and Carnehan who try to take over (*) Kafiristan. This author of "The Man Who Would Be King" wrote a collection including "The Cat That Walked by Himself" and "How the Camel Got His Hump," and another story ends with the title character emerging from a rat hole announcing the deaths of Nag and Nagaina, a pair of cobras. For 10 points, name the author who created Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in The Jungle Book.
One of this author's stories ends with the narrator hearing from the Superintendent of the Asylum that a man who was suffering from sunstroke died without anything in his possession; that man had earlier been singing "The Son of Man goes forth to war, / A golden crown to gain."
Joseph Rudyard Kipling