Few writers have had such an extensive output of work as Jack London. During his 15-year career, he wrote 49 books, including novels, short-story collections, plays and political pamphlets – a number equalling more than three books a year. Jack London, or John Griffith London, which was his original name, led a turbulent and dramatic life, and much of his writing was inspired by his own life ex... Read More
Jack London's contribution to early 20th century American literature is somewhat underestimated; critics claim that his vast production holds a varied literary quality. However, Jack London was an immensely popular author in his time, and his major works are enjoyed by a large audience even today. During his travels, London had adopted socialist views and in 1901 ran unsuccessfully for mayor of... Read More
John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. Jack London's mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Biographer Clarice Stasz and others believe Lon... Read More
John Griffith Chaney, later Jack London, was born into a turbulent bohemian world in San Francisco, the child of Flora Wellman and, she believed, her common-law husband, William Henry Chaney, an itinerant astrologer who deserted her. Flora married John London on 7 September in 1876. Jack heard from a family member at age twenty-one that John was not his father. Perhaps in part because of the ps... Read More
John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. He was born into a turbulent bohemian world in San Francisco, the child of Flora Wellman and, she believed, her common-law husband, William Henry Chaney, an itinerant astrologer who deserted her. Jack London wrote fifty books on extremely diverse subjects, including 198 short stories. Western writer and historian Da... Read More
Jack London was an American author best known for writing The Call of the Wild. Jack London was his pen name, likely born in San Francisco, California as John Griffith Chaney. Like the restive characters in his works, London sought a variety of experiences as a young man including sailor, hobo and an agitator for jobs during the depression. He also wrote some of the earliest Dystopian Fiction,... Read More
John Griffith London, born John Griffith Chaney, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". Chun Ah Chun was first published in 1910. Ah Chun had served from his sixth to his twenty-f... Read More
Jack London, pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney, American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works depict elemental struggles for survival. During the 20th-century, he was one of the most extensively translated American authors. A self-taught professional deeply committed to his art and a supremely self-disciplined writer who churned out forty books and a thousand articles in less... Read More
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, social-activist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. London's most famous novels are The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Iron Heel, and Martin Eden. In a letter dated Dec 27, 1901, London's Macmi... Read More
John Griffith London, born John Griffith Chaney, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire" and "An Odyssey of the North". Because of early financial difficulties, he was largely self-educated past grammar school. London drew heavi... Read More
Few writers have had such an extensive output of work as Jack London. During his 15-year career, he wrote 49 books, including novels, short-story collections, plays and political pamphlets – a number equalling more than three books a year. Jack London, or John Griffith London, which was his original name, led a turbulent and dramatic life, and much of his writing was inspired by his own life ex... Read More
Jack London was born on January 12, 1876. He was born near Third and Brannan Streets in San Francisco and was largely self-educated. By age 30, he was internationally famous for Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and other literary and journalistic accomplishments. Though he wrote passionately about the great questions of life and death and the struggle to survive with dignity and integrity, he al... Read More
Jack London’s most famous novels are The Call of the Wild and White Fang both set in the wilderness of Alaska, where wolves, sledge dogs, greedy prospectors and loose women represent the different aspects of the fight for survival in the wild. London's "strength of utterance" is at its height in his stories, and they are painstakingly well-constructed. "To Build a Fire" is the best known of all... Read More
Jack London was born in San Francisco to Flora Wellman, a young unmarried woman who had run away from her Ohio family. His father was probably William Chaney, an itinerant astrologer, who left London's mother when he learned of her pregnancy. London was adopted and raised in Oakland and its environs by the man his mother soon after married, John London. The Londons were never able to establish... Read More
John Griffith London, born John Griffith Chaney, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. During his adolescence, London held a variety of manual jobs, dropped out of high school, shipped out on a sealing vessel, apprenticed himself as an electrician, and became a tramp. While he was on the road, he was imprisoned in the Erie County Penitentiary for vagrancy. The "unspeakable"... Read More
Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist. Grossman has written for The New York Times, Wired, Time Out New York, The Wall Street Journal, and The Village Voice. He has served as a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and as the chair of the Fiction Awards Panel. In writing for Time, he has also covered the consumer electronics industry, reporting on vi... Read More
Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist, most notable as the author of The Magicians Trilogy: The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land. Lev Grossman's first novel, Warp, was published in 1997 after he moved to New York City. The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory,... Read More
Lev Grossman's New York Times bestseller The Magicians was published in hardcover in August 2009. The book is a dark contemporary fantasy about Quentin Coldwater, an unusually gifted young man who obsesses over Fillory, the magical land of his favourite childhood books. Unexpectedly admitted to Brakebills, a secret, exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, Quentin receives an education i... Read More
“The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading The Mill on the Floss to Motor Mechanics.” Tom Sharpe was writing what are very possibly the funniest novels in English today. He was born in Holloway, London, and brought up in Croydon. Sharpe's father, the Reverend George Coverdale Sharpe, was a Unitarian minister who was active in far-right politics in the 1930... Read More
Thomas Ridley Sharpe was an English satirical novelist. His father, the Reverend George Coverdale Sharpe, was chairman of the Acton and Ealing branch of The Link, and a member of the Nordic League. He declared that he hated Jews "in the sense that he hated all corruption". Sharpe initially shared some of his father's views but was horrified on seeing films of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen... Read More