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Jack London's enduring appeal

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19991001
Author:Williamson, Eric Miles

Jack London: A Life. By Alex Kershaw St. Martin's. $25.95.

More than a hundred years ago, in 1898, Jack London sold his first short story to the San Francisco based magazine, Overland Monthly, for five dollars. A year later, he landed "Odyssey of the North" with Atlantic Monthly, and from there he went on to become the first American author to become a millionaire on his writing, to become America's most famous author, to become a celebrity akin to a movie star of today. London's works have been translated into more than 60 languages, and he remains the bestselling American author in the ...

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