Talbot Mundy
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label: タルボット・マンディ @ja
label: تالبوت موندي @ar
subject: Category:English fantasy writers
subject: Category:1879 births
subject: Category:Writers from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
subject: Category:Great Pyramid of Giza
subject: Category:English male short story writers
subject: Category:19th-century British short story writers
subject: Category:English male non-fiction writers
subject: Category:20th-century English novelists
subject: Category:English male novelists
subject: Category:1940 deaths
subject: Category:English historical novelists
subject: Category:Writers of historical fiction set in antiquity
subject: Category:Pulp fiction writers
subject: Category:20th-century English male writers
subject: Category:English non-fiction writers
subject: Category:19th-century British novelists
subject: Category:People from Hammersmith
subject: Category:20th-century English short story writers
subject: Category:English short story writers
subject: Category:19th-century English male writers
subject: Category:People educated at Rugby School
subject: Category:20th-century English non-fiction writers
subject: Category:19th-century English non-fiction writers
genre: Adventure-fiction
spouse: Kathleen Steele
spouse: Inez Craven
spouse: Harriette Rosemary Strafer
spouse: Theda "Dawn" Webber
spouse: Sally Ames
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birth name: William Lancaster Gribbon
author: yes
id: Mundy, Talbot
1a: Taves
1a: Ellis
2a: Taves
birth place: London
birth place: Hammersmith
death place: Florida
death place: Anna Maria Island
death place: Manatee County, Florida
birth date: 1879-04-23
death date: 1940-08-05
birth place: Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom
death place: Anna Maria Island, Manatee County, Florida, United States
occupation: Short story writer, novelist
source: — Talbot Mundy.
source: — Talbot Mundy, on how he started King of the Khyber Rifles.
source: — Biographer Brian Taves.
quote: "Why did I start writing? The price of pork and beans made it necessary. I just got hungry enough, which is always a good thing for beginners. I was in New York and I knew Jeff Hanley, a red haired reporter on a paper there. I would pound out stuff on the typewriter and Jeff would come home, look my stuff over, say it was rotten, which it was, and make me go ahead doing more of it. Finally, under the stint of his irony I wrote a story and sold it to Frank Munsey."
quote: "I remember sitting in the dark and seeing the throat of the Khyber Pass at sunset - gloomy, ominous, mysterious, lonely, haunted by the ghosts of murdered men and by the prowling outlaws who live by the rifle and shun the daylight. As if the word were almost spoken in my ear I heard "Death roosts in the Khyber while he preens his wings." It seemed like a good line, so I made a note of it."
quote: "[Mundy's] style is simultaneously breezy and pungent, full of epigrams and laden with meaning. Attention to timing, tone, feel, mood, and atmosphere, including the olfactory senses, contribute enormously to all Mundy's stories, whatever the region ... He was able to describe locales and foreign beliefs with a convincing touch of authenticity, combining knowledge from other books, popular legends, and his own travel writings and friendships with a vivid imagination, leaving the reader unable to discern what was fact and what was fiction."
name: Materials Toward a Bibliography of the Works of Talbot Mundy
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description: British writer, born William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940)
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description: englisch-US-amerikanischer Abenteurer, Autor und Theosoph @de
description: écrivain britannique @fr
description: Brits auteur (1879-1940) @nl
description: סופר בריטי @iw
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