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Going ape over Tarzan Local author swings into spotlight
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19990729
Author:CARLOS SADOVI
Oak Park may not have any swinging jungle vines, dangerous lions or other wild African animals, but the west suburban village once claimed Tarzan as a resident.
Not that the "Lord of the Jungle" walked the streets in loincloth or pierced the air with his jungle-rattling yell. The literary character existed in the mind of one of the village's residents, Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote more than 25 Tarzan books.
A new exhibit at the Oak Park-River Forest Historical Society, "Tarzan, Mars, and the Fertile Mind of Edgar Rice Burroughs," is putting the literary spotlight on Burroughs, who published ...
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