[bur-ohz, buhr-] 
| 1. | Edgar Rice, 1875–1950, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. |
| 2. | John, 1837–1921, U.S. naturalist and essayist. |
| 3. | William Seward, 1855–98, U.S. inventor of the adding machine. |
| 4. | his grandson, William S(eward), 1914–1997, U.S. novelist. |
| Bur·roughs (bûr'ōz, bŭr'-) American writer best known for creating the character Tarzan in his novel Tarzan of the Apes (1914). |
| Burroughs, John 1837-1921. American naturalist and writer whose vivid essays gained him wide popularity as a benign sage of nature. |
| Burroughs 1, William Seward 1855-1898. American inventor who in the early 1890s designed and patented the first practical adding machine. |
| Burroughs 2, William Seward 1914-1997. American writer noted especially for Naked Lunch (1959), a surrealist portrait of drug addiction. |
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