Talbot Mundy
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish writer, born William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940)
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Talbot Mundy was an English writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.
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Mundy was educated at Rugby School, pictured
Mundy was active in the East African ivory trade![The February 1912 issue of Adventure, where Mundy's "The Soul of a Regiment" first appeared. According to Taves, it was Mundy's first magazine story "to mark him as a writer to watch and to merit a cover illustration."[59]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Adventure%27s_Soul_of_a_Regiment.jpg)
The February 1912 issue of Adventure, where Mundy's "The Soul of a Regiment" first appeared. According to Taves, it was Mundy's first magazine story "to mark him as a writer to watch and to merit a cover illustration."[59]
Talbot was present in Palestine during the Nebi Musa riots, 1920 (photograph of the day pictured)
Mundy's The Gray Mahatma, also published as Caves of Terror, was reprinted in the December 1951 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries
Lomaland's Raja Yoga Academy and the Temple of Peace, c. 1915
Mundy's embrace of the doctrines of the Theosophical Society (logo pictured) heavily influenced his trilogy of Om, Ramsden and The Red Flame of ErinpuraConnected to Talbot 6
About this person
Country
United KingdomCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1879 to 1940 · aged 61
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7 languages
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