John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. (Information from Wikipedia)
Website: london.sonoma.edu/
Articles in Western American Literature:
Jack London, Aesthetic Theory, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Science
Jack London’s First Biographer
The Problem of Knowledge in Jack London’s “The Water Baby”
Social Philosophy as Best-Seller: Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf
Nietzschean Psychology in London’s The Sea-Wolf
Martin Eden: Jack London’s “Splendid Dream”
Sexual Conflict in The Sea-Wolf: Further Notes on London’s Reading of Kipling and Norris
From “All Gold Canyon” to The Acorn-Planter: Jack London’s Agrarian Vision
Jack London as Wolf Barleycorn
Androgyny in the Novels of Jack London
“Rattling the Bones”: Jack London, Socialist Evangelist
Man and Superwoman in Jack London’s “The Kanaka Surf”
Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”: Epistemology and the White Wilderness
Elizabeth Barrett Meets Wolf Larsen
Beneficial Atavism in Frank Norris and Jack London
Nietzsche of the North: Heredity and Race in London’s The Son of the Wolf
