San Antonio College Library

A collection of all the best and most pertinent pieces London wrote on writing and writers.

Jack London's Strong Truths is a readable and insightful account of Jack London's literary apprenticeship and final mastery as a brilliant writer of almost 200 short stories. His ambition was to tell the "strong truths" of his life as a worker and adventurer understood through the revolutionary ideas he learned from his reading of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Carl Jung.

Traces Jack London's paternity, childhood, youthful career, and success as an author. Discusses his business ventures, alcoholism, and his death.

Biography of Jack London. Includes account of the period London spent in the Yukon.

A biography of the well-known author that concentrates on his 1907-1909 South Sea voyage.

Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful figures in American literature. He is America's most widely translated author (into more than 80 languages), and although his works have been neglected until recently by academic critics in the United States, he is finally winning recognition as a major figure in American literary history. The breadth and depth of new critical study of London's work in recent decades attest to his newfound...