Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was a human writer.

Ian Chesterton had read Burroughs' Mars books as a boy. (COMIC: A Religious Experience)

Peri Brown compared the jungle on Varos to the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs was reminded of Tarzan. (PROSE: Vengeance on Varos)

The Doctor tried to get Sally to read Edgar Rice Burroughs' books in the 1970s. (PROSE: The Blue Angel)

Accordind to the Seventh Doctor, Edgar Rice Burroughs knew the Silurian capital city as Pellucidar.

The the Doctor met Edgar Rice Burroughs by the time of his eighth incarnation and chatted with him about Mars, though Burroughs was only half-listening. He also wrote Tarzan of the Apes. (PROSE: Eater of Wasps) The Eighth Doctor owned a signed copy of A Princess of Mars with the message "To my good friend the Doctor, many thanks". (PROSE: The Deadstone Memorial)

Iris Wildthyme had the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs on board her TARDIS. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress)

Behind the scens
In COMIC: Changes, the Sixth Doctor has a map of Barsoom in a TARDIS storage room. Barsoom is the name of Mars in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian series of novels.