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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), American novelist, born in Chicago. Burroughs was a soldier, business executive, gold miner, cowboy, storekeeper, and policeman before turning to writing as a career. He is known chiefly as the creator of Tarzan, who first appeared in Tarzan of the Apes (1914); more than 20 novels depicting the adventures of Tarzan achieved widespread popularity. Many of them served as the basis of films, and they have been translated into over 50 languages.

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