Edgar Rice Burroughs
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".
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Films (70)
Tarzan
2016 · Novel
Tarzan
2013 · Novel
John Carter: Entre dos mundos
2012 · Novel
Les Chroniques de Mars
2009 · Novel
Lost Time, Monde perdu
2009 · Novel
Tarzan 2
2005 · Novel
La Légende de Tarzan et Jane
2002 · Characters, Original Story
Tarzan
1999 · Story, Novel
Tarzan of the Apes
1998 · Novel
Tarzan et la cité perdue
1998 · Original Story
Las Aventuras Épicas de Tarzán
1996 · Characters
Tarzan in Manhattan
1989 · Characters
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Novel
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981 · Characters
The People That Time Forgot
1977 · Novel
At the Earth's Core
1976 · Novel
The Land That Time Forgot
1974 · Novel
Tarzan and the Brown Prince
1972 · Characters
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
1970 · Characters
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
1968 · Characters
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
1968 · Characters
The Mountains of the Moon
1967 · Author
Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion
1967 · Screenplay
Tarzan and the Great River
1967 · Original Story
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
1966 · Characters
Tarzan the Fearless
1964 · Characters
Tarzan's Three Challenges
1963 · Characters
Tarzan Goes to India
1962 · Characters
Tarzan the Magnificent
1960 · Characters
Tarzan and the Trappers
1960 · Characters
Tarzan, the Ape Man
1959 · Characters
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
1959 · Characters
Tarzan's Fight for Life
1958 · Characters
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
1957 · Characters
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955 · Characters
Tarzan and the She-Devil
1953 · Characters
Tarzan's Savage Fury
1952 · Characters
Tarzan's Peril
1951 · Characters
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
1950 · Characters
Tarzan's Magic Fountain
1949 · Characters
Tarzan and the Mermaids
1948 · Characters
Tarzan and the Huntress
1947 · Characters
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
1946 · Characters
Tarzan and the Amazons
1945 · Characters
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943 · Characters
Tarzan Triumphs
1943 · Characters
Tarzan's New York Adventure
1942 · Characters
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
1941 · Characters
Jungle Girl
1941 · Novel
Tarzan Finds a Son!
1939 · Characters
Tarzan and the Green Goddess
1938 · Characters
Tarzan's Revenge
1938 · Novel
Tarzan Escapes
1936 · Characters
The Lion Man
1936 · Short Story
The New Adventures of Tarzan
1935 · Producer, Novel
The New Adventures of Tarzan
1935 · Characters
Tarzan and His Mate
1934 · Characters
Tarzan the Fearless
1933 · Story
Tarzan the Ape Man
1932 · Characters
Tarzan the Tiger
1929 · Novel
Tarzan the Mighty
1928 · Novel
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
1927 · Novel
The Adventures of Tarzan
1921 · Novel
The Revenge of Tarzan
1920 · Novel
The Son of Tarzan
1920 · Novel
The Oakdale Affair
1919 · Novel
The Romance of Tarzan
1918 · Novel
Tarzan of the Apes
1918 · Novel
The Lad and the Lion
1917 · Novel
Tarzan: Beast Of The Jungle
· Novel
