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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Burroughs, Edgar Rice (bûr'ōz) [key], 1875–1950, American novelist, creator of the character Tarzan. He is the author of Tarzan of the Apes (1914) and numerous other jungle and science fiction thrillers.

See biography by J. Taliaferro (1999).

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