
author
1875–1950
Best known for creating Tarzan and John Carter, this hugely popular adventure writer helped shape early science fiction and fantasy. His stories mixed jungle action, lost worlds, and interplanetary romance in a way that still feels energetic today.

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Born in Chicago in 1875, he tried a string of jobs before turning to fiction and selling adventure stories to pulp magazines. That late start quickly paid off: in 1912 he introduced both Tarzan and John Carter, two characters who became central to popular adventure writing and helped define modern heroic fantasy and science fiction.
He wrote at high speed and with a strong instinct for cliffhangers, building long-running series set in jungles, on Mars, and in other imagined worlds. His work reached a vast audience in magazines, books, comics, radio, and film, and the Tarzan stories in particular became an enduring part of global popular culture.
Burroughs spent part of his later life in California, where the ranch he owned gave its name to the community of Tarzana. He died in 1950, but his fiction remains widely read for its pace, invention, and sense of pure adventure.