Edgar Rice Burroughs 
Efficiency Expert 

Before he emerged as one of the world’s most beloved action-adventure writers and the creator of enduring characters such as Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs struggled academically and had extreme difficulties in the process of trying to find his path in life. The Efficiency Expert is a thinly fictionalized account of Burroughs’ young adulthood and his wayward — and highly circuitous — early career.