"Edgar Rice Burroughs Tells All" An Autobiographical Sketch by Edgar Rice Burroughs This delightful example of Burroughs' humor was originally written for a small Hollywood publication of the 1930s entitled Rob Wagner's SCRIPT published July 9, 1932. I am sorry that I have not led a more exciting existence, so that I might offer a more interesting biographical sketch; but I am one of those fellows who has few adventures and always gets to the fire after it is out. I was born in Peking at the time that my father was military advisor to the Empress of China, and lived there, in the Forbidden City, until I was ten years old. An intimate knowledge of the Chinese language acquired during those years has often stood me in good stead since, especially in prosecuting two of my favorite studies, Chinese philosophy and Chinese ceramics. Burroughs continues (get Mr. Zeuschner's book!) to exercise his humor and inventivness in this "alternate" history of his life. This autobiographical sketch by Edgar Rice Burroughs, complete with the experience of playing the violin, is among the more rare writing examples this American author (1875-1950) ever produced.