Adventure writer Talbot Mundy was born in London, England, and educated at Rigby. After graduation he spent a year in Germany studying agriculture, then took a job with the British government in Baroda, India. He became fascinated with Indian history and culture, and spent much time traveling the country on horseback, even making his way into ...
While visiting New York in 1909 he nearly died from injuries he suffered during a mugging.
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Became an American citizen in March of 1915.
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Before emigrating to the United States he worked as a British civil servant in India and East Africa.
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After leading a roguish life as con artist and ivory poacher in British Africa and thence spending time in jail, he emigrated to the United States in 1909. His writing was admired for its exotic locales and quest themes; he was influenced by Rudyard Kipling. He belonged to the Theosophical Society, which lent some of the fantastic and occult images used in his fiction. He is best known for his "Tros of Samothrace" books set in Britain, Gaul, and the Mediterranean area before the Christian era.