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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) was an American writer, born in Chicago. After a military academy, a spell in the cavalry and a string of unsuccessful jobs and business ventures, he began writing for pulp magazines in his mid-thirties. His first story, “Under the Moons of Mars”, serialized in 1912 and later published as A Princess of Mars, introduced John Carter and the planet Barsoom, and later the same year Tarzan of the Apes appeared. Both became long series, and Tarzan in particular grew into one of the most popular fictional characters of the century, in books, films and comic strips. Burroughs founded his own company to manage his work and bought a ranch in southern California that gave its name to the town of Tarzana. During the Second World War, in his late sixties, he worked as a war correspondent in the Pacific. He died in 1950.