June 22, 2025 seventy- eight years ago on this day in 1947, Ralph Rothman at ERB Inc. informed Western Printing that Burroughs wasn’t prepared to write a pocket book to be titled, “My Life With Tarzan.” Over the years, Burroughs had written several articles about his life and his creations for magazines and newspapers. In June 1947, Edgar Rice Burroughs was seventy-one years old. His health was failing. The only thing that I can verify that he wrote around this time was the 1946 fragment completed by Joe Landsdale for “Tarzan and the Lost Adventure.”
Countless details about ERB and his articles about himself and his creation are located at: www.erbzine.com. For more information, go to that site and search.
The fictional drabble for today is, “A Vine Time Was Had By All,” was inspired by Pocket Books request for a book to be titled, “My Life With Tarzan.”
Ralph Rothman said, “Ed, Western Printing wants to commission a book to be titled, “My Life With Tarzan.” Are you Interested?”
“I’ve written so much about Tarzan and my life. Can’t you just tell them yes and cobble together something from all of the articles I’ve written before.”
“Perhaps, but they want something more exciting.”
“What the hell do they want? Do they think I spent years wearing a loincloth and swinging on vines through the jungle?”
“Well, that would certainly sell the book.”
“Tell them no. Say I’m too busy raiding the jewel vaults of Opar. La, La, La.”
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