Edgar Rice Burroughs Published Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 225 × 331 in Edgar Rice Burroughs ← Previous / Next → 10 Aug 1939 — The author of the famous Tarzan stories, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), whose first of 25 stories of the young Englishman raised in the wilds of the jungle appeared in 1914. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS