WRITER

Edgar Rice Burroughs

1875 - 1950

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan (who appeared in a series of twenty-four books by him) and John Carter (who was a recurring character in a series of eleven books), he also wrote the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the Caspak trilogy. Tarzan was immediately popular, and Burroughs capitalized on it in every possible way, including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, films, and merchandise. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Rice Burroughs has received more than 3,360,902 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Edgar Rice Burroughs is the 635th most popular writer (down from 533rd in 2019), the 643rd most popular biography from United States (down from 552nd in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Writer.

Edgar Rice Burroughs is most famous for his series of novels about the adventures of Tarzan.

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  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edgar Rice Burroughs ranks 635 out of 7,302. Before him are Ludwig Tieck, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Witold Gombrowicz, Raymond Queneau, Edward Bernays, and Curzio Malaparte. After him are Saul Bellow, Clarice Lispector, Daphne du Maurier, William Makepeace Thackeray, Walther von der Vogelweide, and Ivan Franko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs ranks 21. Before him are Vallabhbhai Patel, Gilbert N. Lewis, Henry Hallett Dale, John Buchan, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, and Marie of Romania. After him are Giovanni Gentile, Fritz Kreisler, Paul Landowski, Zhang Zuolin, Antonio Machado, and Edgar Wallace. Among people deceased in 1950, Edgar Rice Burroughs ranks 20. Before him are Karl Renner, Léon Blum, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Kurt Weill, Sri Aurobindo, and Emil Jannings. After him are Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, George Minot, Ramana Maharshi, Roman Shukhevych, Nicolai Hartmann, and Karl Seitz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edgar Rice Burroughs ranks 643 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Taze Russell (1852), Ariana Grande (1993), Richard Kiel (1939), Richard Chamberlain (1934), Gene Wilder (1933), and Monica Lewinsky (1973). After him are Jeff Goldblum (1952), D. B. Cooper (1931), George Beadle (1903), John Dillinger (1903), Alec Baldwin (1958), and Lionel Richie (1949).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Edgar Rice Burroughs ranks 63. Before him are Allen Ginsberg (1926), Ellen G. White (1827), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Napoleon Hill (1883), John Irving (1942), and Louisa May Alcott (1832). After him are Michael Crichton (1942), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Harper Lee (1926), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), Washington Irving (1783), and Irwin Shaw (1913).

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