Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Published | 1999-08-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | John J. Miller |
| Reviewee | n/a | John Taliafero |
Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan, by John Taliaferro, New York: Scribner, 400 pages, $30.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs was in bed reading the Sunday funnies on the morning of March 19, 1950, when he quietly slumped over, leveled by a heart attack at the age of 74. Death apparently came as he was reading a Tarzan comic strip. "At least," writes biographer John Taliaferro, "it is pleasant to think so."
Burroughs had been a failure at many things. He had not been a particularly good student growing up, his two marriages had fallen apart,...
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