The Land That Time Forgot | About the Author
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the Michigan Military Academy from 1892 to 1895 and served in the United States Cavalry from 1896 to 1897. He was married twice: first in 1900 to Emma Centennia Hulbert, whom he divorced in 1934, and later in 1934 to Florence Dearholt, whom he divorced in 1942. Before becoming a writer, Burroughs drifted through a range of occupations, including cowboy, stationery store owner, factory clerk, miner, and railroad policeman. At age thirty-five, unstimulated by his current job of selling pencil...
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