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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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 Sch…
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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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2020
Zenimation
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2016
The Legend of Tarzan
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2013
Tarzan
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2012
John Carter
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2009
Princess of Mars
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2009
The Land That Time Forgot
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2005
Tarzan II
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2002
Tarzan & Jane
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1999
Tarzan
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1998
Tarzan of the Apes
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1998
Tarzan and the Lost City
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1996
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
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1996
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
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1989
Tarzan in Manhattan
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1981
Tarzan the Ape Man
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1977
The People That Time Forgot
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1976
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
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1976
At the Earth's Core
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1974
The Land That Time Forgot
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1972
Tarzan and the Brown Prince
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1970
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
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1968
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
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1968
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
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1967
The Mountains of the Moon
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1967
Tarzan and the Great River
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1966
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
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1964
Tarzan the Fearless
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1963
Tarzan's Three Challenges
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1962
Tarzan Goes to India
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1960
Tarzan the Magnificent
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1960
Tarzan and the Trappers
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1959
Tarzan, the Ape Man
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1959
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
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1958
Tarzan's Fight for Life
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1957
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
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1955
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
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1953
Tarzan and the She-Devil
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1952
Tarzan's Savage Fury
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1951
Tarzan's Peril
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