Biography burroughs edgar rice

Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.

(1875-1950) US author whose early life was marked by numerous false starts and failures – at the time he started writing, aged 36, he was a pencil-sharpener salesman – but it would seem that the impulse to create psychically charged Science-Fantasy environments was deep-set and powerful, for he began with a great rush of energy, and within two years had initiated three of his four most important series.

Certainly the first of his published works has ever since its first appearance served as a successful solution to mid-life frustrations.

A Princess of Mars (February-July 1912 All-Story as "Under the Moons of Mars" as by Norman Bean; 1917) opens the long Barsoom sequence of novels set on Mars (Barsoom), which established that planet as a venue for dream-like and interminable Planetary Romance sagas unpacking in melodramatic arenas strongly reminiscent in their repetitive iconographic clarity of the Western, sf and f