Talbot Mundy(1879-1940)

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.