Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, & Fantastic Lit

2025 marks the 150^th anniversary of the birth of the great modern mythmaker Edgar Rice Burroughs—creator of Tarzan, Mars explorer John Carter, and other figures. Though there have been some notices of the famed writer’s life, the celebration on a broad scale seems to be muted. That’s likely because Burroughs was a child of his time, embracing some of the scientific racism and its corollary, eugenics, that was afloat.