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Swing into `Tarzan' author's home

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19990806
Author:Bill Cunniff

Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of more than 25 Tarzan books, lived in four homes in Oak Park from 1910 to 1919. Burroughs is profiled in a new exhibit at the Oak Park-River Forest Historical Society, on the second floor of the Pleasant Home Museum.

As Burroughs became more successful as a writer, each of his succeeding homes became larger.

Tarzan is one of the most notable characters in fiction. In Burrough's books, Tarzan is the son of Lord Greystoke, an English nobleman. Tarzan is abandoned in Africa while a baby, and he he raised by a family of apes. He even learns the language and habits of ...

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