The following year a collection of his non-fiction writings, The Best of Ruskin Bond was published by Penguin India. These two novels were published in one volume by Penguin India in 1993. He had written Vagrants in the Valley in 1956, as a sequel to The Room on the Roof. In the 1980s, Penguin set up in India and approached him to write some books. Since I was in my 20s and didn’t have any responsibilities I was just happy to be doing what I loved doing best." In 1963, he went to live in Mussoorie because besides liking the place, it was close to the editors and publishers in Delhi. On his youth, he said, "Sometimes I got lucky and some got selected and I earned a few hundred rupees. He sustained himself financially by writing short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines. He worked for a few years freelancing from Delhi and Dehradun. After getting it published, Bond used the advance money to pay the sea passage to Bombay and settle in Dehradun.
He moved to London and worked in a photo studio while searching for a publisher. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, (1957) awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30. In London when he was 17 years old, he started writing his first novel, The Room on the Roof, the semi-autobiographical story of the orphaned Anglo-Indian boy named Rusty he did various jobs for a living. He wrote one of his first short stories, "Untouchable", at the age of sixteen in 1951.įollowing his high school education he went to his aunt's home in the Channel Islands ( U.K.) in 1951 for better prospects and stayed there for two years. He won several writing competitions in the school including the Irwin Divinity Prize and the Hailey Literature Prize. He did his schooling from Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1951. Ruskin was at his boarding school in Shimla and was informed about this tragedy by his teacher. When he was ten, his father died during the war, while he was posted in Calcutta. He was very close to his father and describes this period with his father as one of the happiest times of his life. His father arranged for Ruskin to be brought to New Delhi where he was posted. When Ruskin was eight years old, his mother separated from his father and married a Punjabi Hindu, Hari. Shortly after that, he was sent to a boarding school in Mussoorie. Later, Ruskin's father joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 and Ruskin along with his mother and sister went to live at his maternal home at Dehradun. His father taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar palace and Ruskin and his sister Ellen lived there till he was six. Ruskin Bond was born in to Edith Clarke and Aubrey Alexander Bond, in Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India. 4.1.1 Novels and short stories featuring Rusty.
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