Edgar rice burroughs biography
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
American writer (–)
Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
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| Born | ()September 1, Chicago, Illinois, US |
| Died | March 19, () (aged&#;74) Encino, California, US |
| Resting place | Tarzana, California, US |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Period | – |
| Genre | Adventure, fantasy, lost world, svärd and planet, planetary romance, soft science fiction, western |
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| Notable awards | Inkpot Award ()[1] |
| Spouse | Emma Centennia Hulbert (–) (divorced) Florence Gilbert (–) (divorced) |
| Children | 3, including John Coleman Burroughs |
| Relatives | James Pierce (son-in-law) |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service / branch | United States Army |
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| Battles / wars | Indian Wars First World War Second World War |
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, &#;– March 19, ) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasygenres. Best known for creating
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Tarzan was born in the jungles of Africa, but his creator first saw the light of day amidst more tranquil surroundings.
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago on September 1st, His father, George Tyler Burroughs, was a Civil War veteran and now a successful businessman. Major Burroughs and his wife Mary had five other boys besides Edgar, but two of the children died in infancy, leaving Edgar the youngest of the family.
"Eddie" attended several schools during his formative years, often being shuttled from one to another due to the outbreak of various diseases. At this time it was standard to learn Greek and Latin in addition to English composition, and Burroughs would often lament his erratic schooling, which resulted in his (or so he said) learning little English while taking the same Greek and Latin courses over and over again. Despite his claims to the contrary, this early exposure to Classical literature and mythology would serve Burroughs well in his future writing car
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Entry updated 13 January Tagged: Author.
() US author whose early life was marked by numerous false starts and failures – at the time he started writing, aged 36, he was a pencil-sharpener salesman – but it would seem that the impulse to create psychically charged Science-Fantasy environments was deep-set and powerful, for he began with a great rush of energy, and within two years had initiated three of his four most important series.
Certainly the first of his published works has ever since its first appearance served as a successful solution to mid-life frustrations. A Princess of Mars (February-July All-Story as "Under the Moons of Mars" as by Norman Bean; ) opens the long Barsoom sequence of novels set on Mars (Barsoom), which established that planet as a venue for dream-like and interminable Planetary Romance sagas unpacking in melodramatic arenas strongly reminiscent in their repetitive iconographic clarity of the Western, sf and fantasy protocols indiscr