Edgar Rice Burroughs : the man who created Tarzan /
A biography of the writer who created Tarzan and was an innovator of American science fiction.
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Provo, Utah :
Brigham Young University Press,
[1975]
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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.