Jack London (1876-1916) was easily the most successful and best-known writer in America in the first decade of the 20th century. ... "He was among the most influential people of his day, who understood how to use the media to market his self-created image of a once poor boy to now famous writer"(biography of Jack London). He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays. ... Late in 1876, Flora married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran, who adopted Jack. ... His struggle to become a writer is recorded in his autobiographical novel, Martin Eden (1909). ...

• Word Count: 680
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Jack London 1876-1916 "I would rather be ashes than dust! ... Jack London was the most flamboyant literary representative of the Strenuous Age in America. ... On November 22, 1916, Jack London died gastrointestinal uremia poisoning. ... Out of the some 50 books London wrote two of the most famous novels are The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Both of these novels were also made into movies that are still popular to this day. ...

• Word Count: 2963
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Jack London (1876-1916) was easily the most successful and best-known writer in America in the first decade of the 20th century. ... "He was among the most influential people of his day, who understood how to use the media to market his self-created image of a once poor boy to now famous writer"(biography of Jack London). He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays. ... Late in 1876, Flora married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran, who adopted Jack. ... His struggle to become a writer is recorded in his autobiographical novel, Martin Eden (1909). ...

• Word Count: 680
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Jack Favell was Rebecca's cousin. ... He and Rebecca were having an affair, and the night she died she told Maxim that she was pregnant with Jack's child. ... He doesn't really play a big part in the novel. ... Baker in London. ...

• Word Count: 2965
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27th, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father is Tony Tarantino, who was an actor, as well as an amateur musician. His mother was Connie McHugh, worked as an executive in the medical insurance business. Tarantino's parents separated before his birth, and he never met his biological father. His mother married Quentin's eventual stepfather, Curt Zastoupil, who was a musician, in 1965. ...

• Word Count: 3406
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? ... Primary Author's Biography Upton Sinclair, the most famous of the Americanmuckraker? ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. These novels such as King Midas, The Journal of Arthur Stirling, and Manassas, did not receive any critical recognition, but they showed that Sinclair was concerned with the condition o...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School