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Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan.(Review)

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From: Reason
Date: 19990801
Author:Miller, John J.

Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan, by John Taliaferro, New York: Scribner, 400 pages, $30.00

Edgar Rice Burroughs was in bed reading the Sunday funnies on the morning of March 19, 1950, when he quietly slumped over, leveled by a heart attack at the age of 74. Death apparently came as he was reading a Tarzan comic strip. "At least," writes biographer John Taliaferro, "it is pleasant to think so."

Burroughs had been a failure at many things. He had not been a particularly good student growing up, his two marriages had fallen apart, and he ...

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