Jerrold Mundis

Mundis wrote both fiction and non-fiction, including ghostwritten books, and some 100 short stories, essays, and articles in publications such as the New York Times Magazine, Harper's Weekly and American Heritage.

In Earn What You Deserve, a book on under-earning, he provides an approach to compulsive behavior regarding spending and handling financial matters beginning with "three cardinal rules: do not incur debt, do not take work that pays less than you require and do not say 'no' to money.

Under the pseudonym Eric Corder,[12] Mundis wrote his Shame and Glory saga[13] about the American slave trade.

As Corder, he also wrote a non-fiction book, Prelude to Civil War: Kansas-Missouri, 1854-61, [14] recounting the Bleeding Kansas affair from both the pro-slavery and free-soil points of view, beginning with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

[3] His novel The Dogs, written under the pseudonym Robert Calder, was the subject of an interview by Terry Gross on Fresh Air on May 26, 1976.

The Chicago Tribune once said of him, "One day Calder is Julia Withers, Gothic novelist the next, he's Eric Corder, black historian or Franklin W. Dixon, one of the writers who penned Hardy Boy serials.

"[17] With his focus on "gaining happier relationships with money" as a writer and public speaker, he was internationally recognized in Debtors Anonymous' 12-step Fellowship (founded in 1971) for helping others and introducing them to the recovery movement.