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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Born September 1, 1875(1875-09-01)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died March 19, 1950 (aged 74)
Encino, California, United States
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Writing period 20th century
Genres Adventure novel, Lost World, Sword and Planet, Planetary Romance, Soft science fiction, Westerns
Notable work(s) Tarzan series, Barsoom series
Influences
Influenced

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction The adventure novel is a Literary genre of novels that has Adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger as its main theme The Lost World Literary genre is a Fantasy or Science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time place or both Sword and Planet is a Subgenre of Speculative fiction that features rousing adventure stories set on other planets and usually featuring Earthmen as protagonists Planetary romance is a type of Science fantasy story in which the bulk of the action consists of adventures on one or more exotic alien planets characterized by distinctive Soft science fiction, or soft SF, like its complementary opposite Hard science fiction, is a descriptive term that points to the role and nature of the The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. Tarzan is a Fictional character, an archetypal Feral child raised in the African jungle by Apes who later returns to civilization only to Barsoom is a fictional version of the planet Mars invented by author Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE ( 22 June 1856 &ndash 14 May 1925) was a prolific writer of Adventure novels set Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an English Author and poet Jules Gabriel Verne ( February 8 1828 &ndash March 24 1905) was a French Author who pioneered the science-fiction Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 was an Anglo-Scottish Author most noted for his stories about the Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 &ndash 13 August 1946 He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist, his later works becoming increasingly political Edwin Lester Linden Arnold ( 1857 - March 1, 1935) was an English author Robert Ervin Howard ( January 22 1906 &ndash June 11 1936) was an American pulp writer of Fantasy, Abraham Merritt ( January 20, 1884 &ndash August 21, 1943) who published under the byline A Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920 is an American mainstream, Fantasy, horror, Science fiction and mystery Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7 1907 – May 8 1988 was an American Novelist and Science fiction Writer. Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer primarily of Science fiction and fantasy who has also Linwood Vrooman Carter ( June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of Science fiction and Fantasy Leigh Douglass Brackett ( December 7, 1915, in Los Angeles California &ndash March 18, 1978) was a female writer of Science John Frederick Lange Jr (born June 3, 1931) better known under his pen name John Norman, is a Professor of Philosophy and an author Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946 was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Tarzan is a Fictional character, an archetypal Feral child raised in the African jungle by Apes who later returns to civilization only to

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Biography

Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875 in Chicago, Illinois (although he later lived for many years in the neighboring suburb of Oak Park), the son of a businessman. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Oak Park Illinois is a suburb bordering the west side of the City of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. He was educated at a number of local schools, and during the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891 spent a half year on his brothers' ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. A school (from Greek σχολεῖον - scholeion) is an Institution designed to allow and encourage Students (or "pupils" The Raft River is a Tributary of the Snake River located in northern Utah and southern Idaho in the United States. The State of Idaho ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. He then attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy. Phillips Academy (also known as Phillips Andover or PA or simply Andover) is a co-educational University preparatory school for boarding Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The Michigan Military Academy, also known as the MMA, was an all-boys Military prep school in Orchard Lake Village, Oakland County Graduating in 1895, and failing the entrance exam for West Point, he ended up as an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. "USMA" redirects here For other uses see USMA (disambiguation The United States Military Academy (also known as USMA, A soldier is a general English term that refers to a member of a land component of National Armed forces. Fort Amador and Fort Grant were former United States Army bases protecting the Pacific (southern end of the Panama Canal at the Panama Bay. The Territory of Arizona was an Organized territory of the United States that existed between 1863 and 1912 After being diagnosed with a heart problem and thus found ineligible for a commission, he was discharged in 1897. The heart is a muscular organ in all Vertebrates responsible for pumping Blood through the Blood vessels by repeated rhythmic

What followed was a string of seemingly unrelated and short stint jobs. Following a period of drifting and ranch work in Idaho, Burroughs found work at his father's firm in 1899. The State of Idaho ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. He married Emma Centennia Hulbert in 1900. In 1904 he left his job and found less regular work, initially in Idaho but soon back in Chicago.

By 1911, after seven years of low wages, he was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler and began to write fiction. A pencil sharpener (also referred to as pencil parer) is a device for sharpening a Pencil 's point by shaving one end By this time Burroughs and Emma had two children, Joan and Hulbert. During this period, he had copious spare time and he began reading many pulp fiction magazines and has since claimed:

". Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps" were inexpensive Fiction magazines . . if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines. "

Aiming his work at these pulp fiction magazines, his first story "Under the Moons of Mars" was serialized in The All-Story magazine in 1912[1][2] and earned Burroughs US$400 (roughly the equivalent of US$7600 in 2004).

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 begin his most successful series. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Tarzan of the Apes is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. In 1913, Burroughs and Emma had their third and last child, John Coleman.

Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving Earthly adventurers transported to various planets (notably Barsoom, Burroughs' 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. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting A planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU is a celestial body Orbiting a Star or stellar remnant that is Barsoom is a fictional version of the planet Mars invented by author Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories The Venus Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a Science fiction series consisting of four novels and one novelette The VENUS ( V ictoria E xperimental N etwork U nder the S ea project is a cabled sea floor observatory operated by the University An island (ˈaɪlənd or isle (/ˈaɪl/ is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water in two dimensions above high tide and isolated from other significant Hollow Earth is a belief that the planet Earth has a hollow interior and possibly a habitable inner surface Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West between the years of 1860 and 1900 Along with All-Story, many of his stories were published in the Argosy Magazine.

Tarzan was a cultural sensation when introduced. Tarzan is a Fictional character, an archetypal Feral child raised in the African jungle by Apes who later returns to civilization only to 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. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist 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. A cultural icon can be an Image, a Symbol, a Logo, Picture, Name, Face, Person, or Building

In 1923 Burroughs set up his own company, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and began printing his own books through the 1930s. Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc is an American company founded in 1923 by author Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Book is a set or collection of written printed illustrated or blank sheets made of Paper, Parchment, or other material usually fastened together He divorced Emma in 1934 and married former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt in 1935, ex-wife of his friend, Ashton Dearholt, adopting the Dearholts' two children. Florence Gilbert ( February 20, 1904 &ndash February 27, 1991) was an American film actress of the silent 1920s Ashton Dearholt ( 4 April, 1894 &ndash 27 April, 1942) was an American actor of the silent era. They divorced in 1942.

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor he was a resident of Hawaii and, despite being in his late sixties, he asked for permission to be a war correspondent. Pearl Harbor is a Harbor on the Island of O{{okina}}ahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the A war correspondent is a Journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone. This permission was granted and so he became the oldest war correspondent for the U. S. during World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including After the war ended, Burroughs moved back to Encino, California, where, after many health problems, he died of a heart attack on March 19, 1950, having written almost seventy novels. Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

The town of Tarzana, California was named after Tarzan. Tarzana (/tɑɹˈzænə/ is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. In 1919 Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California which he named "Tarzana. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West " The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their town was incorporated in 1928.

The Burroughs crater on Mars is named in Burroughs' honor. Burroughs crater is a large crater on Mars at Latitude 725S / Longitude 243

Selected bibliography

Barsoom series

Main article: Barsoom

Tarzan series

Main article: Tarzan

Pellucidar series

Main article: Pellucidar
Book Cover: Pirates of Venus
Book Cover: Pirates of Venus

Venus series

Main article: Venus series

Caspak series

Moon series

Mucker series

Other science fiction

Jungle adventure novels

Western novels

Historical novels

Other works

Popular Culture

See also

References

  1. ^ ERBzine, Volume 0419 -"A Virtual Visit to The Nell Dismukes McWhorter Memorial Edgar Rice Burroughs Collection", with photographs. Fictional representations of Mars have been popular for over a century Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946 was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era Sword and Planet is a Subgenre of Speculative fiction that features rousing adventure stories set on other planets and usually featuring Earthmen as protagonists John Carter of Mars is a planned Film under development at Pixar as of 2007 about John Carter, the lead character in much of Edgar Rice Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc is an American company founded in 1923 by author Edgar Rice Burroughs.
  2. ^ Zoetrope: All-Story: Back Issue
  3. ^ ERBzine

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Persondata
NAME Burroughs, Edgar Rice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION American novelist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1875(1875-09-01)
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago, Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1950
PLACE OF DEATH Encino, California, United States
Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to Digitize, archive and distribute Cultural works SciFan is an Online Database for fans of Science fiction and Fantasy Books. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
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