Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (b.✦September 1, 1875 †March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

He is also the author of:

1. Barsoom series
2. Tarzan series
3. Pellucidar series
4. Venus series
5. Caspak series
6. Moon series
7. Mucker series
8. Other science fiction
9. Jungle adventure novels
10. Western novels
11. Historical novels
12. The Perils of Nyoka

See also [ Edgar Rice Burroughs Bibliography ]

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• In either 1915 or 1919, Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California, which he named "Tarzana." The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their town, Tarzana, California was formed in either 1927 or 1928

• At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Burroughs was a resident of Hawaii and, despite being in his late sixties, he applied for permission to become a war correspondent. This permission was granted, and so he became one of the oldest war correspondents for the U.S. during World War II. After the war ended, Burroughs moved back to Encino, California, where, after many health problems, he died of a heart attack on March 19, 1950, having written almost seventy novels.

• The Burroughs crater on Mars is named in his honor

• In the TV series ER, the character played by Noah Wyle is usually called simply Carter, but his full name is John Carter. The creator of ER, Michael Crichton, has cited the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs as an early influence, thus this homage.

• In Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, John Carter appears twice. He teams up with H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quartermain, H. P. Lovecraft's Randolph Carter, and Wells' Time Traveller on a strange journey in the supplemental Allan and the Sundered Veil. Later, he is seen leading the Green Martians in a battle against Wells' Martian invaders.

• He is the creator of "Jungle Girl" who later became the lead charachter in the film "The Perils of Nyoka"

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