How Edgar Rice Burroughs became one of the twentieth century’s biggest scifi authors
In 1911, a 36-year old loser, his latest business venture crumbling into insolvency, started to while away his idle hours at the office by writing a novel for the then-new “pulp” magazines. It was about a man going to Mars. The story he wrote, a swashbuckling tale of action, adventure, and romance set on the…
