Talbot Mundy
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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 Khyb
Mundy, c. 1917
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."
Robert E. Howard
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Robert Ervin Howard was an American author, known for writing pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sor
Talbot Mundy
…who ran it until his death. Mundy's work has been very influential on later writers. Those who have cited him as an influence on their own work include Robert E. Howard, E. Hoffmann Price, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, H. Warner Munn and C. L. Moore. Other science-fiction and fantasy writers who cited Mundy as an…
Howard in 1934
Robert E. Howard at about five years old (circa 1911)
The Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas
Robert E. Howard in his Senior Year at Brownwood High School, 1923