Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best-known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he also wrote the '' Pellucidar'' series, the '' Amtor'' series, and the ''

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'' trilogy. Tarzan was immediately popular, and Burroughs capitalized on it in every way possible, including a syndicated Tarzan

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, movies, and merchandise. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon. Burroughs's California ranch is now the center of the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles, named after the character. Burroughs was an explicit supporter of eugenics and scientific racism in both his fiction and nonfiction; Tarzan was meant to reflect these concepts.

Biography

Early life and family

Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago (he later lived for many years in the suburb of Oak Park), the fourth son of Major George Tyler Burroughs (1833–1913), a businessman and Civil War veteran, and his wife, Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs (1840–1920). His middle name is from his paternal grandmother, Mary Coleman Rice Burroughs (1802–1889). He was of almost entirely English ancestry, with a family line that had been in North America since the

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era. Through his Rice grandmother, Burroughs was descended from settler Edmund Rice, one of the English Puritans who moved to

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in the early 17th century. He once remarked, "I can trace my ancestry back to Deacon Edmund Rice." The Burroughs side of the family was also of English origin and also emigrated to Massachusetts around the same time. Many of his ancestors fought in the American Revolution. Some of his ancestors settled in Virginia during the colonial period, and Burroughs often emphasized his connection with that side of his family, seeing it as romantic and warlike. As close cousins he had seven signatories of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, including his third cousin, four times removed, 2nd President of the United States John Adams. Burroughs was educated at a number of local schools. He then attended

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, in Andover, Massachusetts, and then the Michigan Military Academy. Graduating in 1895, and failing the entrance exam for the United States Military Academy at West Point, he became an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in

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. After being diagnosed with a heart problem and thus ineligible to serve, he was discharged in 1897. Bookplate of Edgar Rice Burroughs

After his discharge Burroughs worked at a number of different jobs. During the Chicago

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epidemic of 1891, he spent half a year at his brother's ranch on the

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in Idaho, as a

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, drifted somewhat afterward, then worked at his father's Chicago battery factory in 1899, marrying his childhood sweetheart, Emma Hulbert (1876–1944), in January 1900. In 1903, Burroughs joined his brothers, Yale graduates George and Harry, who were, by then, prominent Pocatello area ranchers in southern Idaho, and partners in the Sweetser-Burroughs Mining Company, where he took on managing their ill-fated

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gold dredge, a classic bucket-line dredge. The Burroughs brothers were also the sixth cousins, once removed, of famed miner Kate Rice, a brilliant and statuesque Maths professor who, in 1914, became the first female prospector in the Canadian North. Journalist and publisher

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was also his third cousin. When the new mine proved unsuccessful, the brothers secured for Burroughs a position with the Oregon Short Line Railroad in Salt Lake City. Burroughs resigned from the railroad in October 1904.

Later life

By 1911, after seven years of low wages as a pencil-sharpener wholesaler, Burroughs began to write fiction. By this time, Emma and he had two children, Joan (1908–1972), and Hulbert (1909–1991). During this period, he had copious spare time and began reading pulp-fiction magazines. In 1929, he recalled thinking that In 1913, Burroughs and Emma had their third and last child, John Coleman Burroughs (1913–1979), later known for his illustrations of his father's books. In the 1920s, Burroughs became a pilot, purchased a

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, and encouraged his family to learn to fly. Daughter Joan married ''Tarzan'' film actor, James Pierce, starring with her husband, as the voice of ''Jane'', during 1932–1934 for the '' Tarzan'' radio series. The pair were wed for more than forty years, until her death in 1972. Burroughs divorced Emma in 1934 and, in 1935, married the former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt, who was the former wife of his friend (who was then himself remarrying), Ashton Dearholt, with whom he had co-founded Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises while filming ''The New Adventures of Tarzan''. Burroughs adopted the Dearholts' two children. He and Florence divorced in 1942. Burroughs was in his late 60s and was in Honolulu at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Despite his age, he applied for and received permission to become a war correspondent, becoming one of the oldest U.S. war correspondents during World War II. This period of his life is mentioned in

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's bestselling novel '' Don't Go Near the Water''.

Death

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 80 novels. He is buried in Tarzana, California, US. When he died, he was believed to have been the writer who had made the most from films, earning over $2 million in royalties from 27 Tarzan pictures. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Burroughs in 2003.

Literary career

Aiming his work at the pulps—under the name "Norman Bean" to protect his reputation—Burroughs had his first story, '' Under the Moons of Mars'', serialized by

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in the February to July 1912 issues of ''

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Barsoom Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as ''Under the Moons of Mars'' in 1912 and published as a novel as ''A Princess of Mars' ...

'' series and earned Burroughs ($11,922 today). It was first published as a book by

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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'', published from October 1912 and one of his most successful series. Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving adventurers from Earth transported to various planets (notably

, 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. He also wrote Westerns and historical romances. Besides those published in ''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

, 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. In 1923, Burroughs set up his own company, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and began printing his own books through the 1930s.

Reception and criticism

Because of the part Burroughs's science fiction played in inspiring real exploration of Mars, an impact crater on Mars was named in his honor after his death. In a '' Paris Review'' interview, Ray Bradbury said of Burroughs that "Edgar Rice Burroughs never would have looked upon himself as a social mover and shaker with social obligations. But as it turns out – and I love to say it because it upsets everyone terribly – Burroughs is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world." Bradbury continued that "By giving romance and adventure to a whole generation of boys, Burroughs caused them to go out and decide to become special." In ''

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'' (published posthumously in 1937) Rudyard Kipling wrote: "My ''Jungle Books'' begat Zoos of mitators/nowiki>. But the genius of all the genii was one who wrote a series called ''Tarzan of the Apes''. I read it, but regret I never saw it on the films, where it rages most successfully. He had 'jazzed' the motif of the ''Jungle Books'' and, I imagine, had thoroughly enjoyed himself. He was reported to have said that he wanted to find out how bad a book he could write and 'get away with', which is a legitimate ambition." By 1963, Floyd C. Gale of '' Galaxy Science Fiction'' wrote when discussing reprints of several Burroughs novels by

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, "an entire generation has grown up inexplicably Burroughs-less". He stated that most of the author's books had been out of print for years and that only the "occasional laughable Tarzan film" reminded public of his fiction. Gale reported his surprise that after two decades his books were again available, with Canaveral Press, Dover Publications, and

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also reprinting them. Few critical books have been written about Burroughs. From an academic standpoint, the most helpful are Erling Holtsmark's two books: ''Tarzan and Tradition'' and ''Edgar Rice Burroughs''; Stan Galloway's ''The Teenage Tarzan: A Literary Analysis of Edgar Rice Burroughs' ''Jungle Tales of Tarzan; and Richard Lupoff's two books: ''Master of Adventure: Edgar Rice Burroughs'' and ''Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision''. Galloway was identified by James Edwin Gunn as "one of the half-dozen finest Burroughs scholars in the world"; Galloway called Holtsmark his "most important predecessor". Burroughs strongly supported eugenics and scientific racism. His views held that English nobles made up a particular heritable elite among Anglo-Saxons. Tarzan was meant to reflect this, with him being born to English nobles and then adopted by talking apes (the Mangani). They express eugenicist views themselves, but Tarzan is permitted to live despite being deemed "unfit" in comparison, and grows up to surpass not only them but black Africans, whom Burroughs clearly presents as inherently inferior, even not wholly human. In one Tarzan story, he finds an ancient civilization where eugenics has been practiced for over 2,000 years, with the result that it is free of all crime. Criminal behavior is held to be entirely hereditary, with the solution having been to kill not only criminals but also their families. '' Lost on Venus'', a later novel, presents a similar utopia where forced sterilization is practiced and the "unfit" are killed. Burroughs explicitly supported such ideas in his unpublished nonfiction essay ''I See A New Race''. Additionally, his ''Pirate Blood'', which is not

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and remained unpublished after his death, portrayed the characters as victims of their hereditary criminal traits (one a descendant of the corsair Jean Lafitte, another from the Jukes family). These views have been compared with Nazi eugenics (though noting that they were popular and common at the time), with his '' Lost on Venus'' being released the same year the Nazis took power (in 1933). In 2003, Burroughs was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Selected works

''Barsoom'' series

# '' A Princess of Mars'' (1912) # '' The Gods of Mars'' (1913) # '' The Warlord of Mars'' (1914) # '' Thuvia, Maid of Mars'' (1916) # '' The Chessmen of Mars'' (1922) # '' The Master Mind of Mars'' (1927) # '' A Fighting Man of Mars'' (1930) # '' Swords of Mars'' (1934) # ''

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'' (1939) # '' Llana of Gathol'' (1941) # '' John Carter of Mars'' (1964, two stories from 1940 and 1943)

''Tarzan'' series

# '' Tarzan of the Apes'' (1912) # '' The Return of Tarzan'' (1913) # ''

The Beasts of Tarzan ''The Beasts of Tarzan'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. Originally serialized in '' All-Story Cavalier'' magazine in 1914, the novel was first ...

'' (1914) # '' The Son of Tarzan'' (1915) # ''

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar ''Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. It first appeared in the November and December issues of ''All-Story Cavalier We ...

'' (1916) # '' Jungle Tales of Tarzan'' (stories 1916–1917) # '' Tarzan the Untamed'' (1919) # '' Tarzan the Terrible'' (1921) # '' Tarzan and the Golden Lion'' (1922) # '' Tarzan and the Ant Men'' (1924) # '' Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle'' (1927) # '' Tarzan and the Lost Empire'' (1928) # '' Tarzan at the Earth's Core'' (1929) # '' Tarzan the Invincible'' (1930) # '' Tarzan Triumphant'' (1931) # '' Tarzan and the City of Gold'' (1932) # ''

Tarzan and the Lion Man ''Tarzan and the Lion Man'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventeenth in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine ''Liberty ''from November 19 ...

'' (1933) # ''

Tarzan and the Leopard Men ''Tarzan and the Leopard Men'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the eighteenth in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. It was serialized in ''The Blue Book Magazine'' from August 1932 to January 193 ...

'' (1932) # '' Tarzan's Quest'' (1935) # '' Tarzan the Magnificent'' (1936) # '' Tarzan and the Forbidden City'' (1938) # '' Tarzan and the Foreign Legion'' (1947, written in 1944) # '' Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins'' (1963, collects 1927 and 1936 children's books) # ''

Tarzan and the Madman ''Tarzan and the Madman'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-third in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. Written from January to February 1940, the story was never published in Burroughs' ...

'' (1964, written in 1940) # '' Tarzan and the Castaways'' (1965, stories from 1940 to 1941) # '' Tarzan: The Lost Adventure'' (1995, rewritten version of 1946 fragment, completed by

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)

''Pellucidar'' series

# '' At the Earth's Core'' (1914) # '' Pellucidar'' (1915) # '' Tanar of Pellucidar'' (1929) # '' Back to the Stone Age'' (1937) # '' Land of Terror'' (1944, written in 1939) # '' Savage Pellucidar'' (1963, stories from 1942) * '' Tarzan at the Earth's Core'' (1929)

''Venus'' series

# '' Pirates of Venus'' (1932) # '' Lost on Venus'' (1933) # '' Carson of Venus'' (1938) # '' Escape on Venus'' (1946, stories from 1941 to 1942) # ''

The Wizard of Venus ''The Wizard of Venus'' is a science fiction novella by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as the title of a collection in which it was later published together with an unrelated story. "The Wizard of Venus" is the final story in Burrou ...

'' (1970, written in 1941)

''Caspak'' series

# '' The Land That Time Forgot'' (1918) # '' The People That Time Forgot'' (1918) # ''

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'' (1918)

''Moon'' series

* ''Part I: The Moon Maid'' (1923, serialized in ''Argosy'', May 5 – June 2, 1923) * ''Part II: The Moon Men'' (1925, serialized in ''Argosy'', February 21 – March 14, 1925) * ''Part III: The Red Hawk'' (1925 serialized in ''Argosy'', September 5–19, 1925) These three texts have been published by various houses in one or two volumes. Adding to the confusion, some editions have the original (significantly longer) introduction to Part I from the first publication as a magazine serial, and others have the shorter version from the first book publication, which included all three parts under the title '' The Moon Maid''..

''Mucker'' series

* '' The Mucker'' (1914) * ''

The Return of the Mucker ''The Mucker'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was originally formed by two stories: "The Mucker", begun in August 1913 and published by '' All-Story Weekly'' in October and November 1914; and "The Return of the Mucker", b ...

'' (1916) * ''

The Oakdale Affair ''The Oakdale Affair'' is a short contemporary mystery novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was written in 1917 under the working title of "Bridge and the Oskaloosa Kid", and is a partial sequel to ''The Mucker'' (1914/1916). It was ...

'' (1918)

Other science fiction

* ''

The Monster Men ''The Monster Men'' is a 1913 science fiction novel by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs, written under the working title "Number Thirteen". It first appeared in print under the title of "A Man Without a Soul" in the November, 1913 issue of ' ...

'' (1913) * '' The Lost Continent'' (1916; a.k.a. ''Beyond Thirty'') * '' The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw'' (1937) * '' Beyond the Farthest Star'' (1942)

Jungle adventure novels

* ''

The Cave Girl ''The Cave Girl'' is a lost world novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Originally published in two separate stories, ''The Cave Girl'' begun in February 1913 and published by "All-Story" in July, August, and September 1913; and ''Th ...

'' (1913, revised 1917) * ''

The Eternal Lover ''The Eternal Lover'' is a fantasy-adventure novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. The story was begun in November 1913 under the working title ''Nu of the Niocene''. It was first run serially in two parts by ''All-Story Weekly''. The f ...

'' (1914, rev. 1915; A.K.A. ''The Eternal Savage'') * '' The Man-Eater'' (1915) * ''

The Lad and the Lion ''The Lad and the Lion'' is an adventure novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, written in February 1914. His working title for the piece was "Men and Beasts." It was first published as a three-part serial in '' All-Story Weekly'' in the ...

'' (1917) * '' Jungle Girl'' (1931; A.K.A. ''The Land of Hidden Men'')

Western novels

* ''

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'' (1924) * ''

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'' (1927) * ''

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'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1940)

Historical novels

* '' The Outlaw of Torn'' (1914) * '' I am a Barbarian'' (1967; written in 1941)

Other works

* '' Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M'' (1998; written in 1903) * '' The Mad King'' (1914, rev. 1915) * '' The Girl from Farris's'' (1916) * '' The Rider'' (1918) * ''

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'' (1921) * ''

The Girl from Hollywood ''The Girl from Hollywood'' is an Edgar Rice Burroughs contemporary fiction novel. ''The Girl from Hollywood'' was published as a serial by ''Munsey's Magazine'' from June to November, 1922. The book version was first published by Macaulay Co. on ...

'' (1922) * ''

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'' (1924) * ''

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'' (1927) * '' Pirate Blood'' (1970; written in 1932) * '' Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder'' (2001; stories from 1910 to 1944) * '' Brother Men'' (2005; nonfiction)

Notes

References

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Biography

Early life and family

Later life

Death

Literary career

Reception and criticism

Selected works

''Barsoom'' series

''Tarzan'' series

''Pellucidar'' series

''Venus'' series

''Caspak'' series

''Moon'' series

''Mucker'' series

Other science fiction

Jungle adventure novels

Western novels

Historical novels

Other works

See also

Notes

References

Bibliography

Further reading

External links