Born at Brookline, Massachusetts, 1868. A. B., Harvard, 1890. On staff of Milwaukee Sentinel, 1890-1901, and New York Globe, 1910-13. On The New Republic since 1914. His one volume is Books and Things, 1919.
Studies and Reviews
- Dial, 68 (’20): 362.
- No. Am. 210 (’19): 849.
- See also Book Review Digest, 1919.
Born at San Francisco, 1876. Studied at the University of California, but left college to go to the Klondyke. In 1892, shipped before the mast. Went to Japan; hunted seal in Behring Sea. Tramped far and wide in the United States and Canada, in 1894, for social and economic study. War correspondent in the Russian-Japanese War. Traveled extensively. Socialist. Died in 1916.
His work is very uneven; but the following books are regarded as among his best:
- The Call of the Wild. 1903.
- The Sea-Wolf. 1904.
- Martin Eden. 1909. (Autobiographical.)
- John Barleycorn. 1913. (Autobiographical.)
For an account of his life and work, see The Book of Jack London, by Charmian London, 1921 (cf. Freeman, 4 [’22]: 407). For reviews, cf. the Book Review Digest, especially 1903-7, 1911, 1915.
Robert Morss Lovett—man of letters.
Born at Boston, 1870. A. B., Harvard, 1892. Taught English at Harvard, 1892-3; at Chicago, since 1893; professor since 1909. Editor of The Dial, 1919. On the staff of The New Republic, 1921—.