born Sept. 1, 1875, Chicago, Ill., U.S.
died March 19, 1950, Encino, Calif.
U.S. novelist.
Burroughs worked as an advertising copywriter before trying fiction. His jungle adventure novel Tarzan of the Apes (1914) became the first of 25 books featuring Tarzan, the son of an English nobleman abandoned in Africa and raised by apes. He wrote 43 other novels.