There was a huge controversy about that book, actually. His family sued him because it was so easy to figure out their identities based on clues in the book and because he supposedly made elements up: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/01/burroughs200701
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There was a huge controversy about that book, actually. His family sued him because it was so easy to figure out their identities based on clues in the book and because he supposedly made elements up: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/01/burroughs200701