The Palm Beach Post: Producer Gale Anne Hurd to Receive the Edgar Rice Burroughs Legacy Award at the 2026 Tarzana International Film Festival
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer, recognized for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he also wrote the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the Caspak trilogy.
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culture · American writer (1875–1950) · novelist · screenwriter · science fiction writer · prose writer · children's writer · writer · also Edgar Rice Burroughs, Norman Bean, Burroughs
Born 1 September 1875 · Died 19 March 1950 · Q148234
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2003).
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Burroughs was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
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1998· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “The Southern California community of Tarzana was so named after the famous "ape man" character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, one of the town's early residents.” Lost Legend.
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Inkpot Award (1975).
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By a group called CHEETAH (Citizens Holding Exercises Extolling Tarzan's Anniversary Here) and compiled by Florence Moyer
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1950· 1 entry
Died 1950-03-19.
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1934· 1 entry
And in 1935 married the former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt, who was the former wife of his friend Ashton Dearholt, with whom he had co-founded Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises while filming The New Adventures of Tarzan
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1929· 1 entry
“[...] if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines.”
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1927· 1 entry
When the US Postal Service accepted the name, reputedly coming from the popularity of the first (silent) Tarzan of the Apes film, starring Elmo Lincoln, and an early "Tarzan" comic strip
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1923· 1 entry
Burroughs set up his own company, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc
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1919· 1 entry
Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California, which he named "Tarzana"
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1917· 1 entry
Entitled A Princess of Mars, after three Barsoom sequels had appeared as serials and McClurg had published the first four serial Tarzan novels as books
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1914· 1 entry
Became the first female prospector in the Canadian North
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1913· 1 entry
Burroughs and Emma had their third and last child, John Coleman Burroughs (1913–1979), later known for his illustrations of his father's books
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1903· 1 entry
Burroughs joined his brothers, Yale graduates George and Harry, who were by then prominent Pocatello area ranchers in southern Idaho and partners in the Sweetser-Burroughs Mining Company, where he took on managing their
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1895· 2 entries
But he failed the entrance exam for the United States Military Academy at West Point, so instead he enlisted with the 7th U
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Studied at Michigan Military Academy (1895).
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1875· 2 entries
In Chicago, Illinois, the fourth son of Major George Tyler Burroughs, a businessman and Civil War veteran, and his wife, Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs
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Born 1875-09-01.
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