*Burroughs, Edgar Rice: * - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American writer whose adventure fiction helped define twentieth-century popular storytelling. Best known as the creator of Tarzan of the Apes, he also authored the influential Barsoom series beginning with A Princess of Mars. Burrou...

*Burroughs, Edgar Rice: * - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American writer whose adventure fiction helped define twentieth-century popular storytelling. Best known as the creator of Tarzan of the Apes, he also authored the influential Barsoom series beginning with A Princess of Mars. Burroughs' fast-paced narratives, vivid imagination, and mythic heroes shaped generations of pulp, science fiction, and fantasy literature.