One of Chicago's most famous sons was Edgar Rice Burroughs. Young Burroughs tried his hand at many businesses without success, until, at the age of thirty-five, he turned to writing. With the publication of Tarzan of the Apes and A Princess of Mars, his career was assured. The gratitude of a multitude of readers who found in his imagination exactly the kind of escape reading they loved assured him of a large fortune.

Edgar Rice Burroughs died at home in a town bearing the name of his brain child, Tarzana, California. But, to the countless millions who have enjoyed his works, he will live forever.