Table of Contents:
  • "Tarzan, John Carter, Mr. Burroughts, and the long mad summer of 1930," Ray Bradbury
  • Prologue
  • The Creative decision
  • Part One: The early years
  • Childhood and a first adventure
  • Schooling, rebellion, and discipline
  • Part Two: The long journey to adulthood
  • The seventh cavalry and beyond
  • Marriage, wanderings, and reality
  • Frantic years and a taste of success
  • Part Three: From Medievalism to the jungle
  • The Outlaw of torn
  • Tarzan of the Apes
  • part Four: Writing as a profession
  • The Prolific period
  • A California sojourn
  • Part Five: From stories to movies
  • The Writer at home
  • Film frustration
  • Part Six: Travels and World War I
  • Auto-gypsying
  • Writer-Patriot
  • part Seven: A California setting
  • Gentleman farmer
  • Tarzana
  • Family, business, creativity
  • Part Eight: Troubled times
  • Problems at home and abroad
  • Social commentator, columnist
  • Diverse writings
  • part Nine: Bewildering variety and change
  • minor and major money-makers
  • Personal crisis and adjustment
  • Part Ten: From California to Hawaii
  • Burrought-Tarzan films
  • War correspondent
  • Venus-Mars-Pellucidar series and other works
  • Part Eleven: Home to peace and serenity
  • Last years with the family.