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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19980507
Author:LESLIE BALDACCI

Maybe we should thank rotten Midwestern winters for Tarzan. Maybe the months of cold and snow sent Edgar Rice Burroughs' imagination fleeing to the steamy African jungle.

Not surprisingly, he started writing Tarzan of the Apes on Chicago's West Side on a winter night, Dec. 1, 1911 (and finished it May 14, 1912).

Heaven knows, our lousy weather is what caused Burroughs to pack up his wife and three children and leave Oak Park for good in 1919. "Mrs. Burroughs and I are both very anxious to get back to California. This climate is simply abominable," he wrote in a Dec. 4, 1918, letter to his ...

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