When Ruskin was eight years old, his mother Edith Clerke 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. He taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar palace and Ruskin Bond and his sister Ellen lived there till he was six. Later he became a tutor in a small school in the Jamnagar palace for their princes and princesses, where Ruskin also studied for his first six years. His father, Aubrey Alexander Bond, was born in a military camp in Shahjahanpur, a small town in north India. Ruskin Bond was born on 19th May 1934, in Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India. Infant Ruskin is nestled in his mother's arms. Life and career Ruskin Bond's parents- Father Aubrey Alexander Bond and Mother Edith Clarke. He lives with his adopted family in Landour, Mussoorie, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, was published in 1956, and it received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. (now in Solan district, Himachal Pradesh, India) Bond during a book release function in Andhra Pradesh (2012)
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