Rudyard Kipling lived in Vermont from 1892 to 1896, in a house called Naulakha he built on a hillside in Dummerston, four miles north of Brattleboro. He chose the area because his American wife Caroline Balestier was from there, and the years he spent in Vermont were among his most productive: The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and Captains Courageous were all written here.
Naulakha is now owned by the Landmark Trust USA and available for rental as holiday accommodation — sleeping in the house where those books were written has a certain appeal. The exterior can be seen from the road in Dummerston. The Brattleboro Museum often has material related to Kipling's local connections, and the town's bookshops stock his Vermont writing and correspondence. His departure after a bitter family quarrel was a genuine loss for the region, which he described with uncharacteristic affection in his letters.