..About the Author

   Phillip R. Burger is a freelance writer and editor living on an island near Seattle.  A graduate of the University of Oregon and Utah State University, he has written extensively on the life and writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs.  Called a “nimble Burroughs scholar and essayist” by Tarzan Forever author John Taliaferro, his researches on Burroughs have taken him to Idaho, Arizona, Oregon, Kentucky, and the National Archives in Washington, D.C.  George McWhorter of the University of Louisville’s Burroughs Memorial Collection praised Mr. Burger’s master’s thesis Glimpses of a World Past: Edgar Rice Burroughs, the West, and the Birth of an American Writer as “far and away the best book ever written about ERB.”  As a "Burroughs expert" he has been a consultant to newspapers, scholarly presses and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, as well as to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. He has also created content for their Tarzan.org Website.

Mr. Burger has provided essays for the University of Nebraska Press' reprinting of several Burroughs novels in their Bison Frontiers of Imagination series.  He has revised Richard Lupoff's classic Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure for the University of Nebraska Press, is currently editing Burroughs' writing notebooks for publication, and is working on a detailed study of Burroughs' early cowboy and cavalry days. 

Professional Publications

• Afterword to At the Earth’s Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
• “The War to End All Future Wars.”  In Beyond Thirty, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
• “In Defense of Carson Napier.”  In Pirates of Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
• “Red Blood vs. the Red Flag.”  In The Moon Maid, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
• “A Railroad Through the Pleistocene; or, With Roosevelt in Brightest Pellucidar.”  In Pellucidar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.  University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

 Selected Fan Publications

• "'Whatever it is it gets you and me': Some thoughts on The Return of the Mucker.”  Burroughs Bulletin, New Series #10, April 1992.
• "Knocking About the Neocene: Some Thoughts on The Eternal Lover."  Burroughs Bulletin, New Series #12, October 1992.
• "Mesas, Mormons and Martians: The Possible Origins of Barsoomian History."  Burroughs Bulletin, New Series #16, October 1993.
• "Of Burroughs and Businessmen."  Burroughs Bulletin, New Series #18, April 1994.
• "Sweetser and the Burroughs Boys."  Burroughs Bulletin, New Series #19, July 1994.
• "Meat for the Clergy and the Layman: Popular Science and The Land That Time Forgot."  Burroughs Bulletin, New Series #25, January 1996.
• "E. R. Burroughs, U.S.A.: A Young Man's Search for Military Glory in the Wild West."  Burroughs Bulletin, New Series #37, Winter 1999.

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