[9] Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 29, 1906,[10] Strong studied at the Pace Institute of Accounting and Law and Royal Fredrick University Oslo.
[11] In 1931 the Brooklyn Eagle Magazine carried a feature article titled Long Island Man Kills Sharks from Airplane by Joan Crockett which said For the past three years he has enjoyed a wide reputation as a traveler, explorer, lecturer and photographer.
He has traced a lost colony of the old Norse civilization, taken part in a mapping expedition over northwestern Canada with the Canadian Royal Air Force, led a party across Finland from the northern end of the railway and shot a shark with a machine gun from an airplane.
[9] He studied Scandinavian literature at the University of Oslo, and his hobbies included riding, hunting, fishing, and automobile and motorboat racing.
[9] Strong was one of the authors who popularized the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in fiction, with his leading characters: Corporal Buchanan and Constable Carter of the RCMP, writing as Charles Stoddard.