Edgar Rice Burroughs Research Paper

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Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on September 01,1875 in Chicago, Illinois. He is the fourth born son of Major George Tyler Burroughs(1833-1913). George was a businessman and Civil War veteran.George’s wife Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs (1840-1920).He died on March 19,1950 in Encino, Los Angeles California. He died from a heart attack when he returned home from World War 2. He had many health problems and after died of a heart attack. He is buried at Tarzana, California. U.S. American actor Reid Markel is his great-great-grandson.The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2003.

Burroughs married his childhood sweetheart, Emma Hulbert, in January 1900.For the next ten years there family lived near poverty.In 1911 Burroughs sold a science