Trivia

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.

Before emigrating to the United States he worked as a British civil servant in India and East Africa.

Became an American citizen in March of 1915.

While visiting New York in 1909 he nearly died from injuries he suffered during a mugging.

In the mid-1970s, filmmaker Philip Kaufman became interested in bringing Mundy's "Jimgrim" character to the screen, starting with his 1923 story "The Nine Unknown". The project came closest to fruition when the rumored $20 million Tri-Star Pictures production was slated to shoot in England and Nepal starting April 1985.

Kaufman, in conjunction with producer Stephen J. Roth, also attempted a third version of Mundy's 1916 novel "King of the Khyber Rifles" (filmed previously in 1929 and 1953). This project collapsed in 1983 allegedly on account of the lukewarm box office reception of Kaufman's film The Right Stuff (1983).