In the 1960s, he attended Boston University, where he served as a writer on the Boston University News in 1966-1967. And where, as a student leader, he spearheaded demonstrations against the Vietnam War. He completed a Master"s Degree in counseling and began working with the severely mentally ill and with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome patients in Los Los Angeles
He writes about business, economics, and financial matters as well as cultural issues. In 1967, Mungo co-founded the Liberation News Service (LNS), an alternative news agency, along with Marshall Bloom. LNS split off from College Press Service (CPS) in a political dispute.
The founding event was a notably tumultuous meeting that transpired not far from the offices of CPS on Church Street in Washington, District of Columbia Mungo descriptively details this event in his book, Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times with the Liberation News Service.
In 1968,he moved to Vermont with Verandah Porche and others as part of the Back-to-the-land movement.
Mungo continued to write through the 1970s and 1980s. However in 1997 his career path took a different turn. When he wrote Palm Springs Babyon in 1993 he lived in Palm Springs, California.
Mungo visited France in 2000 and briefly considered relocating there.
