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Edgar Rice Burroughs ( 1 September 1875 – 19 March 1950 ) was an American author of science-fiction and adventure stories, most famous for the creation of the jungle-born hero Tarzan . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Tarzan of the Apes (1912) 1.2 How I Wrote...


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Name: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Birth Date: September 1, 1875
Death Date: March 19, 1950
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Place of Death: Encino, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, businessman

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Biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs
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On December 1, 1911, at about eight o'clock in the evening, a thirty-six-year-old man picked up a pen and began to write a story. This man had lived out almost half his life and was, by his own standards, a failure. He had tried many different...
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Biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs
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It is probably not surprising that a man nearly forty years of age, with a wife and children to support but no real taste for the pedestrian routines of business, should dream of being carried away to another planet or of being born in the jungle, free...
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Biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American adventure writer whose Tarzan stories created a folk hero known around the world. His novels sold more than 100 million copies in 56 languages, making him one of the most widely read authors of the...


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Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950) Summary
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Perhaps best known as the creator of Tarzan the Apeman, Edgar Rice Burroughs did much to popularize science fiction and adventure fantasy during the first half of the twentieth century. When he turned to writing in his mid-thirties after a mediocre and...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he produced works in many...


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Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan.(Review)
08/01/1999: 1,655 words, approx. 6 pages
Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan, by John Taliaferro, New York: Scribner, 400 pages, $30.00 Edgar Rice Burroughs was in bed reading the Sunday funnies on the morning of March 19, 1950, when he quietly slumped over, leveled...
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West Virginia University Philological Papers
A princess of where? Burroughs's imaginary lack of place.(Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars)(Critical essay)
09/22/2006: 3,424 words, approx. 11 pages
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote A Princess of Mars in 1911, and All-Story Magazine published it as a pulp serial in 1912. The novel tells the story of John Carter's journey to the fourth planet, which the natives call Barsoom. At the time of the...
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1950s 'Tarzan' Gordon Scott dies at 80
5/3/2007: 367 words, approx. 1 pages
Gordon Scott, a handsome, muscular actor who portrayed an "intelligent and nice" Tarzan in 1950s movies, has died. He was 80. Scott, who had been living in a working class section of south Baltimore, died Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital of post-heart surgery complications, a...
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Olympian and actor Herman Brix dies
3/1/2007: 338 words, approx. 1 pages
Herman Brix, the Olympic shot putter who played Tarzan in a 1935 movie, has died. He was 100.Brix, who used the name Bruce Bennett for many of his movies, died Saturday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center of complications from a broken hip, son Christopher said.Brix,...
 


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