Brett’s suggestions on
lectures and
reviews/reactions to
undercover work in London, England
Peters, Charles Rollo
Phillips, Percival
Pinella, Mike
Pinkham, Lucius
Piper, Charles
Plaint of Overcrowded London, The (Haw)
Plume (Indian warrior)
Porter, William S.
Portland (ship)
Possum (dog)
Prentiss, Alonzo
Prentiss, Ruth
Prentiss, Virginia
background
death
London as child and
London borrowing money from
London helping
Prentiss, Will
Prison, Erie County Penitentiary
abusers/abused
conditions
graft/hall-men and
London’s pal “Jack,”
overview
release/trip home
Prohibition movement
Pure Food and Drug Act
R . Hickmott Canning Company
Railroad travels/London
bumming money/food
Canadian generosity
diary writing
graft and
Kelly ’s Army and
riding on the “rods,”
shoveling coal
Rand, Caroline “Carrie,” See also Sterling, Carrie
Razzle Dazzle (boat)
“Red Scare” (1920s)
Reimers, Johannes
Reindeer (boat)
Reitman, Ben
Riis, Jacob
R .M.S. Majestic
Road, The (London)
Roamer (yawl)
Robeau, Father
Rockefeller, John D.
Rogers, Earl
Rogers, Nora (Adela)
Roosevelt, Theodore
Russia
ports and See also Japan-Russian war
Sailor on Horseback (Stone)
Salvation Army
England
“Haydee,”
Samuels, George
San Francisco Bay
oyster farms
pollution/effects
waters description
San Francisco Bulletin
San Francisco Chronicle
Flora/William Chaney
London and
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Morning Call
Partington and
writing contest
San Francisco Newsletter
Scarlet Plague, The (London)
“Scorn of Women” (London)
Scurvy
Sea-Wolf, The (London)
about
film and
homosexuality and
reviews/critics
success of
writing
Seal hunting
alcohol
Bonin Islands
books and
Bricklayer’s death
bullying/fight
friends (Victor/Axel)
homosexuality and
killing seals
overview
typhoon
Sekiné, Tokinosuka
Shame of the Cities, The (Steffens)
Shattuck, Louis
Shaw, Mary
Shepard, Eliza
death
divorce
gold rush and
managing stepbrother’s business
stepbrother relationship See also London, Eliza
Shepard, Herbert
Shepard, James
family and
gold rush and
Shepard, Milo
Shiels, J. W.
Signa (Ouida)
Sinclair, Upton
Sisson, Edgar
Slayton Lyceum Bureau lecture tour
Slocum, Amanda
Slocum, Joshua
Slocum, William N.
Sloper, Ira Merritt
Smith, Adam
Smith, Geddes
Smith, Joseph
Smith, Josephine (“Ina”) Donna. See Coolbrith, Ina
Smith, Lee
Smoke Bellow Tales (London)
Snark. See Voyage around the world/Snark
Social Democratic Federation
Social justice/London
economy/wage slavery
his imprisonment and
hoboes and
readings and
”survival of the fittest,”
Socialism
in early twentieth century
Macmillan & Co. See also specific individuals
Socialism/London
criticism of
free speech arrest/trial
ideas on socialism
insulting audiences
lectures
letter to Strunsky
Mexican civil war and
racism and
resigning from Socialist party
Slayton Lyceum Bureau lecture tour
“Speaker’s Corner” and
valet and
war and
Yale lecture See also specific writings
Socialist Club, New York
Socialist Labor Party
Socialist Party, Los Angeles
“Sociology of Christ,”
Solano (steam ferry)
“Somnambulists, The” (London)
Son of the Sun, A (London)
“Son of the Wolf, The” (London)
Son of the Wolf, The (London)
Sophia Sutherland
South Sea Tales (London)
Sowell (partner to John London)
Spanish-American War
Spargo, John
“Speaker’s Corner,”
Spencer, Herbert
Spiritualism
about See also specific individuals
Sprague, Achsa
Spray (sailboat)
Spring, Rebecca
S.S. City of Topeka
S.S. Farragut
S.S. Tymeric
S.S. Umatilla
Star Rover (London)
Steffens, Lincoln
Sterling, Carrie
Charmian/London and
London and
marriage
suicide
Sterling, George
about/background
Bierce and
Bohemian Club
description See also “Crowd, The”
Sterling, George/London
drinking at ranch
editing London’s writings
end of “soul mate” relationship
hashish and
homosexuality and
London’s death and
poem for Sterling
relationship
rentals for family
“soul mate” relationship
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoddard, Warren
background
“Crowd, The,”
homosexuality and
London and
Stolz, Bert
father’s story
Snark voyage
Stolz, Louis
Stone, Irving
“Story of a Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan, The” (London)
“Story of an Eyewitness, The” (London)
“Story of Keesh, The” (London)
Strawn-Hamilton, Frank
Strunsky, Anna
background
Bess London’s divorce and
death
description
Kempton-Wace Letters, The (London/Strunsky)
London and
London’s proposals
marriage/divorce
Studies in the Psychology of Sex (Ellis)
Surfing
Sutherland, Captain
Tales of the Fish Patrol (London)
Tarbell, Ida
Tarkington, Booth
Tarwater
Testi
mony of the Suns and Other Poems, The (Sterling)
Thompson, Fred C.
Thomson, A. M.
“Thousand Deaths, A” (London)
Through the South Seas with Jack London ( Johnson)
Thurston, Lorrin
“To Build a Fire” (London)
“To the Man on the Trail” (London)
Tochigi, Paul
Trotsky, Leon
Trowbridge, John Townsend
Turtles of Tasman, The (London)
Twain, Mark
Typeans
Umbstaetter, H. D.
University of California, Berkeley/London
U.S.S. Independence
U.S.S. Louisiana
Valley of the Moon, The (London)
Vance, Arthur
Von Tempsky, Louis/daughters
Voyage around the world
Australia
crew/applications for
crew changes
decision to abandon
Hawaii
lepers/leper colony
Marquesas Islands
photographs
plans for
return to Oakland
riding cane down flumes
San Francisco trip during
Solomon Islands
Tahiti
Tasmania
tropical diseases
Voyage around the world/Jack London
Bessie’s letter/request
fistulas
lectures
navigation skills
racism and
skin problems
surfing
writing contracts and
Voyage around the world/Snark
christening
description
naming
planning/building
problems
repairs
sea trials
selling
Voyage of the Spray (Slocum)
Wada, Tsunekichi
Wake Robin Lodge
Walling, William English
War correspondent job/London
arrests
in Hawaii
health problems
interpreter/valet
in Japan
in Korea
obtaining work/payment
photographs
racism and
traveling
writing to Charmian
War of
War of the Classes, The (London)
Warner, Abby
Warren, James Langhorne
Washoe Ban (horse)
Wave, The
Wellman, Flora
Chaney and
childhood
Chronicle story
description/personality
as mother to London
pregnancy
Prentisses and
spiritualism and
suicide attempts
typhus/effects
wedding (John London)
Yeslers and See also London, Flora
Wells, H. G.
Western Comrade
Wharton, Edith
“What Communities Lose by Competition” (London)
“What Life Means to Me” (London)
When God Laughs (London)
Whistler, James McNeill
Whitaker, Herman “Jim”
background
London and
White Fang (London)
about/success
President Roosevelt and
writing
“White Silence, The” (London)
Whitechapel Workhouse, England
Wiget, Werner
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Williams, Michael
Wilson, Harry Leon
Wings of Sunset (Coolbrith)
Winship, Ed/Ida
Wolf House See also Beauty Ranch
Woman’s Home Companion
Woodruff, Charles E.
Yamada
Yamamoto
Yeslers, Sarah/Henry
YMCA
Youth’s Companion (magazine)
Yukon Belle
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Haley, James L.
Wolf : the lives of Jack London / James L. Haley. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-0-465-02167-3
1. London, Jack, 1876-1916. 2. Authors, American—19th century—Biography. 3. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. I. Title. II. Title: Lives of Jack London.
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