Edgar Burroughs, author of the “Tarzan” series and other fantasy stories, moved from school to school at an early age to avoid various illness outbreaks. In 1891, Burroughs’s parents shipped him to Idaho to protect him from an influenza epidemic. He attended and later taught at a military school in Michigan before returning to Chicago and his father’s American Battery Company. For many years, Burroughs searched for satisfying work and eventually began sending his stories, including “Tarzan of the Apes,” to All-Story magazine.