Michael Dirda - When I was a boy in the late 1...

When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.

Michael Dirda

American Critic

Born: 1948

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