Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs has written at least 179 books. Their most popular book is A Princess of Mars with 272 saves with an average rating of 3.42⭐.
Author Bio
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a businessman. During the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent half a year on his brothers' ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1895. He failed the entrance exam for West Point, and so became an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. He was discharged in 1897, having been found ineligible for service due to a heart problem.
He drifted, working odd jobs at ranches across Idaho, then came to work at his father's firm in 1899. He married Emma Centennia Hulbert in 1900. In 1904 he left his job and found less regular work, ending up back in Chicago. He held several low-wage jobs for the next seven years, then, while working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler, he began to write fiction in 1911. He began reading pulp fiction magazines and decided to aim his fiction toward getting published in these magazines. His first published story, "Under the Moons of Mars," was serialized in The All-Story magazine in 1912. He began writing full-time and his first published novel, Tarzan of the Apes, was published in October of 1912.
In 1919 he purchased a ranch north of Los Angeles, California which he named "Tarzana," a name which was later adopted by the citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch. In 1923 he set up Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and began printing his own books. He divorced Emma in 1934 and married former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt in 1935. In 1941, when Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked, he was a resident of Hawaii and he volunteered to become the oldest war correspondent for the U.S. during World War II. He divorced his second wife in 1942. After the war he moved back to Encino, California, where, after many health problems, he died of a heart attack in March of 1950. Over the course of his writing career he wrote almost seventy novels.
#1 of 14 in Tarzan
1912 • 122 Readers • 278 pages • 3.5
#2 of 14 in Tarzan
1913 • 25 Readers • 328 pages • 3.6
#11 of 13 in Barsoom
1943 • 22 Readers • 462 pages • 3.3
2021 • 17 Readers • 285 pages • 3.6
2012 • 16 Readers • 160 pages • 3.5
#4 of 14 in Tarzan
1916 • 16 Readers • 280 pages • 3.4
13 Readers • 3.5
12 Readers • 3
#2 of 3 in Caspak
1918 • 9 Readers • 140 pages • 2.7
9 Readers • 2.7
#13 of 14 in Tarzan
1929 • 7 Readers • 336 pages • 3.7
#3 of 3 in Caspak
1918 • 5 Readers • 136 pages • 2
2019 • 5 Readers • 64 pages • 2.5
#11 of 14 in Tarzan
1928 • 5 Readers • 3
5 Readers • 3
5 Readers
2020 • 4 Readers • 265 pages • 3
#16 of 14 in Tarzan
1932 • 4 Readers • 316 pages • 3
2013 • 4 Readers • 432 pages • 4
4 Readers • 3
#1 of 2 in The Custer Siblings
1914 • 3 Readers • 204 pages
3 Readers
2013 • 3 Readers • 1,663 pages
3 Readers • 3
1913 • 2 Readers
1964 • 2 Readers • 124 pages • 3
2 Readers
#1 of 13 in Barsoom
1912 • 2 Readers • 192 pages
#3 of 13 in Barsoom
1919 • 2 Readers • 264 pages • 3
2 Readers
#5 of 13 in Barsoom
1922 • 2 Readers • 285 pages • 4
2022 • 2 Readers • 106 pages • 5
#1 of 13 in Barsoom
2012 • 2 Readers • 473 pages
2 Readers
2 Readers • 38,753 pages
2014 • 2 Readers • 1,500 pages • 4
2 Readers
Planned book #1 of 1 in 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature
2 Readers
2015 • 1 Reader
1 Reader • 582 pages
1968 • 1 Reader • 293 pages
#0 of 1 in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: Comics
2005 • 1 Reader
1 Reader • 5
2012 • 1 Reader
1923 • 1 Reader • 324 pages
#1 of 4 in Venus
1935 • 1 Reader • 187 pages • 1
2014 • 1 Reader • 5,674 pages
2 Amazing Stories Magazine
2013 • 1 Reader
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2009 • 1 Reader • 3
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1921 • 1 Reader
1916 • 1 Reader
1914 • 1 Reader
13 Barsoom
2012 • 1 Reader
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