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Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.
Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois (he later lived for many years in the suburb of Oak Park), the fourth son of businessman and Civil War veteran Major George Tyler Burroughs (1833–1913) and his wife Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs (1840–1920). His middle name is from his paternal grandmother, Mary Rice Burroughs (1802-ca. 1870).
Burroughs was educated at a number of local schools, and during the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent a half year at his brother's ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He then attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then the Michigan Military Academy. Graduating in 1895, and failing the entrance exam for the United States Military Academy (West Point), he ended up as an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. After being diagnosed with a heart problem and thus ineligible to serve, he was discharged in 1897.
Bookplate of Edgar Rice Burroughs showing Tarzan holding the planet Mars, surrounded by other characters from Burroughs's stories and symbols relating to his personal interests and career.
Typsescript letter, with Tarzana Ranch letterhead, from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Ruthven Deane, explaining the design and significance of his bookplate.
Some seemingly unrelated short jobs followed. Some drifting and ranch work followed in Idaho. Then, Burroughs found work at his father's firm in 1899. He married childhood sweetheart Emma Hulbert in January 1900. In 1904 he left his job and found less regular work; some in Idaho, later in Chicago.
By 1911, after seven years of low wages, he was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler and began to write fiction. By this time, Burroughs and Emma had two children, Joan (1908–1972), who would later marry Tarzan film actor James Pierce, and Hulbert (1909–1991).
Aiming his work at the pulps, Burroughs had his first story, Under the Moons of Mars, serialized by Frank Munsey in the February to July 1912 issues of The All-Story —under the name "Norman Bean" as a precaution to protect his reputation. (Under the Moons of Mars inaugurated the Barsoom series. It was first published as a book by A. C. McClurg of Chicago in 1917, entitled A Princess of Mars, after three Barsoom sequels had appeared as serials, and McClurg had published the first four serial Tarzan novels as books.)
Burroughs soon took up writing full-time and by the time the run of Under the Moons of Mars had finished he had completed two novels, including Tarzan of the Apes, which was published from October 1912 and went on to become one of his most successful series. In 1913, Burroughs and Emma had their third and last child, John Coleman Burroughs (1913–1979).
Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving Earthly adventurers transported to various planets (notably Barsoom, Burroughs's fictional name for Mars, and Amtor, his fictional name for Venus), lost islands, and into the interior of the hollow earth in his Pellucidar stories, as well as westerns and historical romances. Along with All-Story, many of his stories were published in The Argosy magazine.
Tarzan was a cultural sensation when introduced. Burroughs was determined to capitalize on Tarzan's popularity in every way possible. He planned to exploit Tarzan through several different media including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies and merchandise. Experts in the field advised against this course of action, stating that the different media would just end up competing against each other. Burroughs went ahead, however, and proved the experts wrong — the public wanted Tarzan in whatever fashion he was offered. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon.
In either 1915 or 1919, Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California, which he named "Tarzana." The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their community, Tarzana, California was formed in 1927. Also, the unincorporated community of Tarzan, Texas, was formally named in 1927 when the US Postal Service accepted the name, reputedly coming from the popularity of the first (silent) Tarzan of the Apes film, starring Elmo Lincoln, and an early "Tarzan" comic strip.
Burroughs divorced Emma in 1934 and married the former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt in 1935, the former wife of his friend, Ashton Dearholt, and Burroughs adopted the Dearholts' two children. The couple divorced in 1942.
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Burroughs was a resident of Hawaii and, despite being in his late 60s, he applied for permission to become a war correspondent. This permission was granted, and so he became one of the oldest war correspondents for the U.S. during the Second World War.
American film director Wes Anderson is Burroughs' great-grandson.
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Burroughs in 2003.
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Barsoom series
Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess Of Mars (read by John Bolen)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Gods Of Mars (read by John Bolen)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Warlord Of Mars (read by John Bolen)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Thuvia, Maid Of Mars (read by John Bolen)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Chessmen Of Mars (read by John Bolen)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Master Mind Of Mars (read by Bill Wasley and ???)
Tarzan series
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan Of The Apes (read by Shelly Frasier)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Return Of Tarzan (read by Shelly Frasier)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Beasts Of Tarzan (read by Shelly Frasier)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Son Of Tarzan (read by Shelly Frasier)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan And The Jewels Of Opar (read by Shelly Frasier)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Jungle Tales Of Tarzan (read by Shelly Frasier)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan The Untamed (read by Patrick Lawlor)
Pellucidar Books
Edgar Rice Burroughs - At The Earth's Core (read by Patrick Lawlor)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Pellucidar (read by Patrick Lawlor)
Caspak Books
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Land That Time Forgot (read by Raymond Todd)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The People That Time Forgot (read by Brian Emerson)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Out Of Time's Abyss (read by Brian Emerson)
Other
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Cave Girl (read by Patrick Lawler)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Monster Men (read by David Stifel)
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Efficiency Expert (read by Paul Woodson)
Code:
Barsoom series
http://rapidgator.net/file/4f5f94a6915b3c9e1a7dbdc262d6173a/A_Princess_Of_Mars.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/59d70573b8a32db2c752d50c05a9f905/The_Gods_Of_Mars.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/db114de57adaa97a9bd3f941afd8d5ae/The_Warlord_Of_Mars.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b32c36143a1c033d1aca7a2ecaf17ab7/Thuvia_Maid_Of_Mars.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/236c9fb8d59982e5c1cb38d4484e8eb2/The_Chessmen_Of_Mars.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/854373253ff6bdf1fc189f6ebe9c10b0/The_Master_Mind_Of_Mars.rar.html
Tarzan series
http://rapidgator.net/file/fbd8d366a0b0fb8bca1e7289103ca5bb/Tarzan_Of_The_Apes.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/69170400048efc6482ca26cc960f0403/The_Return_Of_Tarzan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a51344a17da536a9d006df31cb4c9857/The_Beasts_Of_Tarzan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3c970c1ae4059f8ca0b7454351d89662/The_Son_Of_Tarzan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a374ca93c35fff6014f0d94671b8e15e/Tarzan_And_The_Jewels_Of_Opar.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a344945ddf394254cc538a566766a047/Jungle_Tales_Of_Tarzan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8cd276f8ed5c00c38551ada275d36606/Tarzan_The_Untamed.rar.html
Pellucidar Books
http://rapidgator.net/file/b4fb27431317ebb6256a564f87998ad2/At_The_Earths_Core.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/95dbcfc1f3fd789e10a160009d150f63/Pelucidar.rar.html
Caspak Books
http://rapidgator.net/file/4dbb7aa967a74d6ea8b695be8d52b4b3/The_Land_That_Time_Forgot.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1cf647c879150db280ce5b27bfd5457b/The_People_That_Time_Forgot.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c7e0f64e59e3da9009fff1800870a99d/Out_Of_Times_Abyss.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/0b2b8284826d870e13811e395fe35e5d/The_Cave_Girl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cf719147d2bf45fc30ee67b0e4300a54/The_Monster_Men.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/52077ad79796078f799178aafc18e2fa/The_Efficiency_Expert.rar.html |
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