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Jack London

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United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)

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Thinking of Melville, thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser. Nelson Algren

The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written – or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way. Robert E. Howard

Without socialism, bourgeois practices and the egotistical principle of private ownership gave rise to the "people of the abyss" described by Jack London and earlier by Engels. Andrei Sakharov

In his youth, author Jack London was known to take part in oyster pirating in the highly productive oyster beds near Bay Farm Island, today long gone. Source: Internet

In 1906 Jack London and his wife, Charmian, made a horseback trip through the Valley, gathering background material for a book. Source: Internet

The circumstances preceding the mutiny on the Bounty and Jack London 's story "Make Westing" poignantly illustrated the difficulty it caused for mariners seeking to round Cape Horn on the clipper ship route between New York and California. Source: Internet

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