Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in 1875 in Chicago, Illinois, into a prosperous family. After a series of failed careers—including stints as a soldier, a gold miner, a railroad policeman, and a pencil sharpener salesman—he turned to writing fiction in his mid-thirties, almost on a whim. His first published story, Under the Moons of Mars, appeared in 1912, the same year Tarzan of the Apes was serialized in The All-Story magazine. Both works were immediate sensations, and Burroughs became one of the most prolific and commercially successful writers of the twentieth century. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Tarzan of the Apes.