Edgar Rice Burroughs

1 September 1875 – 19 March 1950

100 works on record

Biography

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a businessman. During the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent half a year on his brothers' ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1895. He failed the entrance exam for West Point, and so became an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. He was discharged in 1897, having been found ineligible for service due to a heart problem. He drifted, working odd jobs at ranches across Idaho, then came to work at his father's firm in 1899. He married Emma Centennia Hulbert in 1900. In 1904 he left his job and found less regular work, ending up back in Chicago. He held several low-wage jobs for the next seven years, then, while working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler, he began to write fiction in 1911. He began reading pulp fiction magazines and decided to aim his fiction toward getting published in these magazines. His first published story, "Under the Moons of Mars," was serialized in The All-Story magazine in 1912. He began writing full-time and his first published novel, Tarzan of the Apes, was published in October of 1912. In 1919 he purchased a ranch north of Los Angeles, California which he named "Tarzana," a name which was later adopted by the citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch. In 1923 he set up Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and began printing his own books. He divorced Emma in 1934 and married former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt in 1935. In 1941, when Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked, he was a resident of Hawaii and he volunteered to become the oldest war correspondent for the U.S. during World War II. He divorced his second wife in 1942. After the war he moved back to Encino, California, where, after many health problems, he died of a heart attack in March of 1950. Over the course of his writing career he wrote almost seventy novels.

Works

Tarzan of the Apes Tale #1 the Man-Child

2008

More Martian tales

2007

Tarzan Volume Ten

2007

Tarzan Volume Nine

2007

John Carter's Chronicles of Mars

2007

Tarzan at the Earth's Core (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)

2006

Tanar of Pellucidar (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)

2006

Edgar Rice Burroughs 21 books on CD (including Tarzan and Mars)

2006

The Return of the Mucker

2004

People Out of Time

2004

The Land That Time Forgot Deodand Classic

2003

Tarzan y la Ciudad de Oro

2002

A Princess of Mars (The Barsoom Series, Book 1)

2001

People That Time Forgot LT

2000

Short Narrative By Herman Melville (Paradise And Chimmeney)

2000

Tarzan (Children's Thrift Classic)

2000

Pelliucidar

1999

You Lucky Girl!

1999

Tarzan 2 in 1 (Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle & Tarzan and The Lost Empire)

1997

A Princess of Mars (Mars (B & B Audio))

1997

Tarzan 2-in-1

1997

A Princess of Mars

1997

Tarzan 2-in-1 (Tarzan and the Golden Lion & Tarzan and the Ant Men) (Tarzan)

1997

Tarzan 2-in-1 (Tarzan at the Earth's Core/Tarzan the Invincible) (Tarzan , No 13&14)

1997

El Regreso de Tarzan

1995

Tarzan En El Centro de La Tierra

1995

Ready Readers

1993

Edgar Rice Burroughs Science Fiction Classics

1992

Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan Novels, No 6)

1986

Gods of Mars (Mars (del Rey Books Numbered))

1985

TARZAN & CASTAWAYS (Tarzan)

1985

TARZAN &FOREIGN LEGION (Tarzan)

1984

T1 TARZAN OF THE APES (Tarzan)

1983

Tarzan At Earth Core

1982

Tarzan at the Earth's Core (Tarzan)

1982

Tarzan and the Leopard Man

1982

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (Tarzan, Book 11)

1980

Tarzan and the Ant Men (Tarzan Series #10)

1980

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (Tarzan Series #5)

1980

Golden Age of Tarzan, 1939-42

1980

The Son of Tarzan

1980

Tarzan and the Golden Lion #9

1980

Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan Series #6)

1980

The Mad King

1979

People Time Forget

1979

Tarzan and the Leopard Men (#18)

1979

T3 Beasts of Tarzan

1979

JOHN CARTER OF MARS (Mars (del Rey Books Numbered))

1979

THE MASTER MIND OF MARS # 6 Mastermind

1979

The bandit of Hell's Bend

1979

The Oakdale Affair

1978

Tarzan and the Lion Men

1978

Tarzan the Terrible (#8)

1976

THE ETERNAL SAVAGE (originally The Eternal Lover) (Tarzan)

1976

Tarzan and the City of Gold

1975

The Land That Time Forgot (Marvel Movie Premiere 1)

1975

Tarzan and the Lion Man

1975

The Wizard Of Venus (No 5 In The Venus Series)

1975

Tarzan And The Leopard Men (Ballantine 21912, #18)

1974

Tarzan and the Ant Men (#10)

1974

A Fighting Man Of Mars

1973

Jungle Tales of Tarzan #6

1972

Tarzan and the Ant Men #10 (Ballantine white cover)

1972

Lost on Venus (Carson Napier Adventures #2) (Ace SF Classic, 49501)

1970

Three Martian Novels

1970

THE MOON MEN ( The Adeventure Classics 2)

1970

Escape on Venus (Carson Napier Adventures #4) (Ace SF Classic, 21561)

1969

Tarzan At the Earth's Core

1968

The Efficiency Expert

1966

Tarzan und sein Sohn

1965

Tarzan and the madman

1964

John Carter of Mars

1964

The Gods of Mars

1964

The pirates of Venus, and Lost on Venus

1963

The Monster Men (Ace SF Classic, F-182)

1963

The Land that Time Forgot, and The Moon Maid

1963

The Monster Men

1962

Tarzan the Invincible (Ace Classic SF, F-189)

1962

Pirates of Venus (Carson Napier Venus Adventures 1) (Classic Ace SF, F-179)

1962

Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Ace SF Classic, F-206)

1961

Tarzan's jungle tales

1961

Carson of Venus

1939

Tarzan the magnificent

1939

Tarzan and the forbidden city

1938

Tarzan and the lion man

1934

Jungle girl

1933

A fighting man of Mars

1931

Tanar of Pellucidar

1930

The master mind of Mars : being a tale of weird and wonderful happenings on the red planet

1928

The Outlaw of Torn

1927

The Cave Girl

1925

Tarzan and the ant men

1924

The Moon Maid

1923

The Chessmen of Mars

1922

Out of Time's Abyss

1918

The Son of Tarzan

1916

Tarzan of the Apes

1914

Tarzan and the Tarzan twins

1900

Fighting Men of Mars

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