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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Burroughs, Edgar Rice( 1875–1950),
author of popular and fantastic adventure stories about Tarzan, the son of a British nobleman, deserted in the African jungle in infancy and reared by apes. Tarzan of the Apes (1914) is the first in a lengthy series of tales about the boy, who grows up to wed and have a son, and a grandson in the many sequels. He also wrote many works of science fiction.

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