![]() ![]() Fox was also a fan of mystery writer, John Dickson Carr. Merritt and Merritt's influence could be seen in much of Fox's later fiction. Young Gar 'always particularly liked" the great A. A slightly older REH was doing the same thing in Texas. It should be noted that about the only way that Fox could've read Mundy and Lamb in the early 1920s would be by way of the mighty pulp, Adventure. ![]() After that, he "read all of Burroughs, Harold Lamb, Talbot Mundy" that he could find. When he was eleven, Fox was given two of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom novels. ![]() A native of Brooklyn, he grew up reading the pulps. Gar Fox was born in 1911, almost exactly five years after Robert E. This should get me caught up on significant anniversaries for awhile. Doing my emergency make-up birthday post yesterday for Ken Kelly put me a day behind on honoring another legend: Gardner Francis Fox. ![]()
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