Novelist (12-Jan-1876 — 22-Nov-1916)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Frederick Feied. No Pie in the Sky: The Hobo As American Cultural Hero in the Works of Jack London, John Dos Passos, and Jack Kerouac. New York: Citadel Press. 1964.

Maxwell Geismar. Rebels and Ancestors: A Critical Study of Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Ellen Glasgow & Theodore Dreiser. London: Allen. 1954. 435pp.

Joan London. Jack London and His Times: An Unconventional Biography. Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1939. 387pp.

Andrew Sinclair. Jack: A Biography of Jack London. New York: Harper & Row. 1977.

Irving Stone. Sailor on Horseback: The Biography of Jack London. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 1938.

Charles N. Watson. The Novels of Jack London: A Reappraisal. University of Wisconsin. 1983. 304pp.

Reed Whittemore. Six Literary Lives: The Shared Impiety of Adams, London, Sinclair, Williams, Dos Passos, and Tate. University of Missouri Press. 1992. 280pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

7. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.701)

8. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.453)

9. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.427)

10. Penguin Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century (p.133)

11. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.911)

12. Webster's American Biographies (p.646)

13. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.149)

14. Twentieth Century Authors (p.843)

15. Authors Today and Yesterday (pp.415-18)

16. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.441)

17. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.611)

18. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.450)

19. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.306)

20. Concise Dictionary of American Biography (p.581)

21. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.3, pp.187-89)

22. Biographical Dictionary of the Left (vol.4, pp.464-68)

23. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.9)

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