Edgar Rice Burroughs
Writing
His father had been a major in the Union army during the Civil War. Edgar Rice Burroughs attended the Brown School then, due to a diphtheria epidemic, Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, then the Harvard School, Phillips Andover and the Michigan Military Academy. He was a mediocre student and flunked his examination for West Point. He worked a variety of jobs all over the country: a cowboy in Idaho, a gold miner in Oregon, a railroad policeman in Utah, a department manager for Sears Roebuck in Chicago. He published "A Princess of Mars" under the title "Under the Moons of Mars" in six parts between February and July of 1912. The same "All-Story Magazine" put out his immediately successful "Tarzan of the Apes" in October of that year. Two years later the hardback book appeared, and on January 27, 1918, the movie opened on Broadway starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. It was one of the first movies to gross over $1,000,000. Burroughs was able to move his family to the San Fernando Valley in 1919, converting a huge estate into Tarzana Ranch. He was in Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 and remained in Hawaii as a war correspondent. Afterward he returned home with a heart condition. On March 19, 1950, alone in his home after reading the Sunday comics in bed, he died. By then he had written 91 novels, 26 of which were about Tarzan. The man whose books have sold hundreds of millions of copies in over thirty languages once said "I write to escape ... to escape poverty".
Known for
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tvZenimation
2020
Characters
movieTarzan
2013
Novel
movieJohn Carter
2012
Novel
movieTarzan II
2005
Novel
movieTarzan & Jane
2002
Characters, Original Story
movieTarzan
1999
Story, Novel
movieTarzan and the Lost City
1998
Original Story
movieTarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
Characters
movieTarzan in Manhattan
1989
Characters
movieTarzan the Ape Man
1981
Characters
movieTarzan and the Brown Prince
1972
Characters
movieTarzan's Deadly Silence
1970
Characters
movieTarzan and the Jungle Boy
1968
Characters
movieTarzan and the Great River
1967
Original Story
movieTarzan and the Valley of Gold
1966
Characters
movieTarzan the Fearless
1964
Characters
movieTarzan's Three Challenges
1963
Characters
movieTarzan Goes to India
1962
Characters
movieTarzan the Magnificent
1960
Characters
movieTarzan, the Ape Man
1959
Characters
movieTarzan's Greatest Adventure
1959
Characters
movieTarzan's Fight for Life
1958
Characters
movieTarzan and the Trappers
1958
Characters
movieTarzan and the Lost Safari
1957
Characters
movieTarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
Characters
movieTarzan and the She-Devil
1953
Characters
movieTarzan's Savage Fury
1952
Characters
movieTarzan's Peril
1951
Characters
movieTarzan and the Slave Girl
1950
Characters
movieTarzan's Magic Fountain
1949
Characters
movieTarzan and the Mermaids
1948
Characters
movieTarzan and the Huntress
1947
Characters
movieTarzan and the Leopard Woman
1946
Characters
movieTarzan and the Amazons
1945
Characters
movieTarzan's Desert Mystery
1943
Characters
movieTarzan Triumphs
1943
Characters
movieTarzan's New York Adventure
1942
Characters
movieTarzan's Secret Treasure
1941
Characters
movieJungle Girl
1941
Novel
movieTarzan Finds a Son!
1939
Characters
movieTarzan and the Green Goddess
1938
Characters
movieTarzan Escapes
1936
Characters
movieThe Lion Man
1936
Short Story
movieThe New Adventures of Tarzan
1935
Characters
movieTarzan and His Mate
1934
Characters
movieTarzan the Ape Man
1932
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