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’s “South of the Slot” and William James’s “The Divided Self and the Process of Its Unification,” by Robert J. Brophy
Jack London, Aesthetic Theory, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Science, by Barbara Lindquist
Jack London’s First Biographer, by William Holtz
The Problem of Knowledge in Jack London’s “The Water Baby,” by Jeanne C. Reesman
Social Philosophy as Best-Seller: Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf, by Susan Ward
Nietzschean Psychology in London’s The Sea-Wolf, by Michael Qualtiere
Martin Eden: Jack London’s “Splendid Dream,” by Sam S. Baskett
Sexual Conflict in The Sea-Wolf: Further Notes on London’s Reading of Kipling and Norris, by Charles N. Watson Jr.
From “All Gold Canyon” to The Acorn-Planter: Jack London’s Agrarian Vision, by Earle Labor
Jack London as Wolf Barleycorn, by Jon A. Yoder
Androgyny in the Novels of Jack London, by Clarice Stasz
“Rattling the Bones”: Jack London, Socialist Evangelist, by Carolyn Willson
The Lives of Jack London, by Richard W. Etulain
Man and Superwoman in Jack London’s “The Kanaka Surf,” by Howard Lachtman
Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”: Epistemology and the White Wilderness, by The Western Literature Association
Elizabeth Barrett Meets Wolf Larsen, by Robert Brainard Pearsall
Beneficial Atavism in Frank Norris and Jack London, by James R. Giles
A New Reading of The Sea Wolf, by James Ellis
Nietzsche of the North: Heredity and Race in London’s The Son of the Wolf, by Richard Vanderbeets
