Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 -- 1950)

Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy. Graduating in 1895, and failing the entrance exam for West Point, he enlisted in the Seventh Cavalry in Arizona. After being diagnosed with a heart problem he was discharged in 1897.

He and began to write fiction in 1911. Aiming his work at the pulp magazines then in circulation, his first story Under the Moons of Mars was serialized in All-Story magazine in 1912.

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. Burroughs wrote almost 70 novels; science fiction, crime, as well as westerns and historical romances. He is best remembered as the creator of the character Tarzan.

The town of Tarzana, California was named after Tarzan.

The Burroughs crater on Mars is named in his honor.

John Carter of Mars Series

• A Princess of Mars
• The Warlord of Mars
• The Gods of Mars
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars
• The Chessmen of Mars

Tarzan Series

• Tarzan of the Apes
• The Return of Tarzan
• The Beasts of Tarzan
• The Son of Tarzan
• Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
• Jungle Tales of Tarzan
• Tarzan the Untamed
• Tarzan the Terrible

Earth's Core Series

• At the Earth's Core
• Pellucidar

Land That Time Forgot Series

• The Land that Time Forgot
• The People That Time Forgot
• Out of Time's Abyss

Other Works

• The Lost Continent
• The Oakdale Affair
• The Mucker
• The Efficiency Expert
• The Mad King
• The Outlaw of Torn
• The Monster Men