Edgar Rice Burroughs

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

American author (1875-1950)

Biography:

Son of a wealthy family, Edgar Rice Burroughs was educated in private schools in Chicago. From 1897 to 1911, he tried to work in numerous but unsuccessful jobs and business ventures. After getting married and having three children, he began writing advertising and then he turned to fiction. In 1911, he published his first piece, Under the Moon of Mars, in the adventure magazine All-Story. It was so successful that he turned to writing full-time.
In 1912, the first Tarzan story appeared, narrating the adventures of this son of an English nobleman abandoned in the African jungle during infancy and adopted and raised by a tribe of great apes. In 1914, Burroughs publishes Tarzan of Apes, and the character instantly captured the popular fancy. Burroughs ultimately published 68 titles in all, from which 25 are about Tarzan. His Tarzan stories were translated to more than 50 languages and were also popular in comic-strip, motion-picture, television and radio versions.