Edgar Rice Burroughs
Writing
Born: September 2, 1875 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: March 19, 1950 (aged 74)
Biography
His father had been a major in the Union army during the Civil War. Edgar Rice Burroughs attended the Brown School then, due to a diphtheria epidemic, Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, then the Harvard School, Phillips Andover and the Michigan Military Academy. He was a mediocre student and flunked his examination for West Point. He worked a variety of jobs all over the country: a cowboy in Idaho, a gold miner in Oregon, a railroad policeman in Utah, a department manager for Sears Roebuck in Chicago. He published "A Princess of Mars" under the title "Under the Moons of Mars" in six parts between February and July of 1912. The same "All-Story Magazine" put out his immediately successful "Tarzan of the Apes" in October of that year. Two years later the hardback book appeared, and on January 27, 1918, the movie opened on Broadway starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. It was one of the first movies to gross over $1,000,000. Burroughs was able to move his family to the San Fernando Valley in 1919, converting a huge estate into Tarzana Ranch. He was in Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 and remained in Hawaii as a war correspondent. Afterward he returned home with a heart condition. On March 19, 1950, alone in his home after reading the Sunday comics in bed, he died. By then he had written 91 novels, 26 of which were about Tarzan. The man whose books have sold hundreds of millions of copies in over thirty languages once said "I write to escape ... to escape poverty".
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Tarzan
Story
Tarzan
Novel
The Legend of Tarzan
Novel
Tarzan & Jane
Characters
Tarzan & Jane
Original Story
John Carter
Novel
Tarzan
Novel
Tarzan II
Novel
Tarzan and His Mate
Characters
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Characters
Zenimation
Characters
Tarzan the Ape Man
Characters
Tarzan and the She-Devil
Characters
Tarzan the Magnificent
Characters
The People That Time Forgot
Novel
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Novel
Princess of Mars
Novel
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Characters
Tarzan's Savage Fury
Characters
Tarzan the Ape Man
Characters
The Land That Time Forgot
Novel
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Characters
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Characters
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Characters
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Characters
Tarzan Escapes
Characters
Tarzan's Three Challenges
Characters
The Land That Time Forgot
Novel
Tarzan and the Trappers
Characters
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
Characters
Tarzan and the Brown Prince
Characters
Tarzan, the Ape Man
Characters
Tarzan and the Amazons
Characters
Tarzan Triumphs
Characters
Tarzan of the Apes
Novel
Tarzan Goes to India
Characters
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Characters
At the Earth's Core
Novel
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
Characters
The Mountains of the Moon
Author
Tarzan and the Lost City
Original Story
Tarzan and the Mermaids
Characters
Tarzan in Manhattan
Characters
Tarzan and the Huntress
Characters
The New Adventures of Tarzan
Novel
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Characters
Tarzan and the Great River
Original Story
Tarzan's Magic Fountain
Characters
Tarzan's Revenge
Novel
The New Adventures of Tarzan
Characters
Tarzan's Fight for Life
Characters
Tarzan's Peril
Characters
The Romance of Tarzan
Novel
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Novel
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Characters
Jungle Girl
Novel
Tarzan of the Apes
Novel
The Adventures of Tarzan
Novel
Tarzan and the Green Goddess
Characters
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
Characters
Tarzan the Fearless
Story
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
Characters
Tarzan the Mighty
Novel
The Revenge of Tarzan
Novel
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
Characters
The Lion Man
Short Story
The Son of Tarzan
Novel
Tarzan the Fearless
Characters
The Lad and the Lion
Novel
Tarzan the Tiger
Novel
The Oakdale Affair
Novel
