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Há 2 dias · John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. [6]
Há 22 horas · Ernest Miller Hemingway ( / ˈɜːrnɪst ˈhɛmɪŋweɪ /; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and ...
20 de mai. de 2024 · Isabel Allende (born 1942), Chilean/American novelist, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune. Dorothy Allison (born 1949), Bastard Out of Carolina. Lisa Alther (born 1944), Kinflicks. Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862–1919), The Young Trailers. Julia Alvarez (born 1950), How the García Girls Lost Their Accents.
Há 4 dias · Jack London, American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works—among them The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906)—depict elemental struggles for survival. During the 20th century he was one of the most extensively translated of American authors.
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- Jack London's first book, The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North (1900), was a collection of short stories that he had previously published in...
- Jack London wrote and published steadily, completing some 50 books of fiction and nonfiction in 17 years, and became the highest-paid writer in the...
- The short story "To Build a Fire" (1908) was set in the Klondike and is a masterly depiction of humankind’s inability to overcome nature. It was re...
- The autobiographical novels of Jack London are Martin Eden (1909), The Road (1907), and John Barleycorn (1913).
- The Call of the Wild is often considered to be Jack London's masterpiece and is the most widely read of all his publications. The story follows Buc...
Há 6 dias · Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934, Sacramento, California, U.S.—died December 23, 2021, New York, New York) was an American novelist and essayist known for her lucid prose style and incisive depictions of social unrest and psychological fragmentation.
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6 de mai. de 2024 · Notable Works: “Chances”. “The Stud”. “The World Is Full of Married Men”. Notable Family Members: sister Joan Collins. Jackie Collins (born October 4, 1937, London, England—died September 19, 2015, Los Angeles, California) was an English author known for her provocative romantic thrillers, which were liberally salted ...
11 de mai. de 2024 · London, Jack, 1876-1916; Source The original of this item is located at Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, COLL MSS 10 Box 2 Folder 13.
