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Edgar Rice Burroughs : the man who created Tarzan

Author:	Irwin Porges
Publisher:	Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University Press, [1975]
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	A biography of the writer who created Tarzan and was an innovator of American science fiction.
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Genre/Form:	Biography
Named Person:	Edgar Rice Burroughs; Edgar Rice Burroughs
Material Type:	Biography
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Irwin Porges Find more information about:
ISBN:	0842500790 9780842500791
OCLC Number:	1365304
Description:	xix, 819 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Contents:	"Tarzan, John Carter, Mr. Burroughts, and the long mad summer of 1930," Ray Bradbury -- Prologue -- The Creative decision -- Part One: The early years -- Childhood and a first adventure -- Schooling, rebellion, and discipline -- Part Two: The long journey to adulthood -- The seventh cavalry and beyond -- Marriage, wanderings, and reality -- Frantic years and a taste of success -- Part Three: From Medievalism to the jungle -- The Outlaw of torn -- Tarzan of the Apes -- part Four: Writing as a profession -- The Prolific period -- A California sojourn -- Part Five: From stories to movies -- The Writer at home -- Film frustration -- Part Six: Travels and World War I -- Auto-gypsying -- Writer-Patriot -- part Seven: A California setting -- Gentleman farmer -- Tarzana -- Family, business, creativity -- Part Eight: Troubled times -- Problems at home and abroad -- Social commentator, columnist -- Diverse writings -- part Nine: Bewildering variety and change -- minor and major money-makers -- Personal crisis and adjustment -- Part Ten: From California to Hawaii -- Burrought-Tarzan films -- War correspondent -- Venus-Mars-Pellucidar series and other works -- Part Eleven: Home to peace and serenity -- Last years with the family.
Responsibility:	Irwin Porges ; Hulbert Burroughs, pictorial editor ; introduction by Ray Bradbury.

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