tion: Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Playwright
Source: American Decades. Gale Research, 1998.
Popular Author. London was a popular author whose fiction combined high adventure, socialism, mysticism, Darwinian determinism, and Nietzschean theories of race. Of the fifty books published during his career, The Call of the Wild (1903) is the most famous and widely read. London's fiction, particularly The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf (1904), and The Iron Heel (1908), and the short stories "Love of Life," "To Build a Fire," and "Batard," are considered classics i
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