With London out of copyright, many are reprinting his works. He was, as with many writers, compelled to create. He was not so active as a farmer until 1910. One weaves into the other.Īlthough he claimed to write to support his ranch, that is only partially true. For this reason it helps to understand how his other activities in life influenced his writing: his socialism, his farming, his travels, his family. Whether nonfiction reportage or fiction, the sense of realism is present. They were not autobiographical, yet based upon his close observations and notes.
These led to two major forms of coverage: wars and boxing.Īs Conrad observed, London's books had been lived. Thanks to his contacts at the San Francisco Call, he received journalism assignments as well. He also published more regionally in Out West, Sunset, and Hearst newspapers. Magazine were the major mass media before radio arrived. He published nationally in The Atlantic Monthly, The Youth's Companion, Pearson's Magazine, The Cosmopolitan, and other prominent outlets. Gaining notice, he was soon attracting the attention of important editors and offered contracts. His first story collection, The Son of the Wolf, appeared in 1900.
There followed his travel to the Klondike gold rush, which led to his Northland story, "To the Man on Trail," being published in The Overland Monthly. The following year, now twenty, he had appearances in The Oakland Times, and was learning from its editors. In 1895, he published both stories and nonfiction in The Aegis, his high school literary magazine. (Second place went to a Stanford student.) A year later he was tramping on the road across the country and back, filling a diary that would become the basis for The Road. "Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan" won the The Call contest he entered. His first publication, as John London, was based on his 1893 sealing voyage on the Sophia Sutherland, when he was 17. Now known around the world, published in several dozen languages, Jack London committed himself to become a writer by late adolescence.
His work is real his books have been lived."
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