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	Jack London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		London was later to depict Sterling as Russ Brissenden in his autobiographical novel Martin Eden (1909) and as Mark Hall in The Valley of the Moon (1913).
		London survived the hardships of the Klondike, and these struggles inspired what is often called his best short story, To Build a Fire (v.i.).
		London's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_London (7793 words)

	Biography
		Joan played for Nelson Mandela oh his 70th birthday at Wembley Stadium in London and at the end of 1999 Joan was asked to write a tribute song the former President of South Africa.
		Joan has received the Key to Sydney and was a guest of honour at her home country's Independence Celebrations.
		Joan was elected President of Women of The Year In the United Kingdom in 2005 for a term of 5 years.
	www.joanarmatrading.com /index.asp?m=misc&n=bio&p=1 (651 words)

	Watson
		Joan London’s version, moreover, is suspect as a third-hand as told to’’ account; the ‘‘acquaintance on the road’’ is not named and the source is undocumented and therefore unverifiable.
		Joan London was a scrupulous and, on the whole, an objective biographer of her father, yet we cannot be certain that this story was not considerably transformed during its multiple tellings.
		London’s frame, in fact, resembles that in T. Thorpe’s classic of the genre, "The Big Bear of Arkansas," in which the hyperbolic hunting yarn is told by the roaring frontiersman Jim Doggett in the bar of a Mississippi River steamboat to a crowd of rowdy skeptics, including the more restrained and rather pompous frame-narrator.
	www.compedit.com /watson.htm (4028 words)

	Joan London
		© 2006 by Clarice Stasz, Ph.D. Joan London (on left with sister Becky) was born to Jack and Bess Maddern London on January 15, 1901.
		Joan shared many of her father's qualities: a sharp intellect, disciplined work habits, support for the underdog, and expressive emotions.
		Joan London was the public sister, similar to her father a large personality, brilliant, impatient, and committed to her causes.
	london.sonoma.edu /Family/Joanlondon.html (1157 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - London, Jack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		LONDON, JACK [London, Jack] (John Griffith London), 1876-1916, American author, b.
		Although he was a highly paid writer of extremely popular fiction, London, a socialist, considered his social tracts— The People of the Abyss (1903) and The Iron Heel (1907)—as his most important work.
		Jack London at CACI HQ has awarded special recognition to three Dayton members.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/London-J1.asp (384 words)

	Supreme Court: Joan Biskupic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		Joan Biskupic: Justice O'Connor, who was the key fifth vote to strike down the Nebraska law, said that she would uphold a narrower law, one that focused on a single medical procedure and had an exception for the health of the mother.
		Joan Biskupic: The two oldest justices are John Paul Stevens (80) and William Rehnquist (75)-- that makes them the likeliest candidates to retire during the new president's tenure.
		Joan Biskupic: You're referring to situations when a death row inmate is about to be executed and his lawyer tries one more shot at the Supreme Court.
	www.usatoday.com /community/chat/0721biskupic.htm (2682 words)

	The Andrews Family Lines: Thirteenth Generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		Joan was born in of, Westminister, Middlesex, England.
		Stephen Atwood was born in of, London, London, England 1616.
		William Atwood was born in of, London, London, England 1622.
	www5.pair.com /vtandrew/family/i0000231.htm (361 words)

	Jack London's Oldest daughter (The World of Jack London)
		Joan London at 2523 Rose St., Berkeley, Ca., 1938, writing her father's biography, Jack London and His Times.
		During the last few years of her life, Joan wrote two other books, one about the California farm labor movement co-authored by Henry Anderson: So Shall Ye Reap: The Story of Cesar Chavez and the California Farm Worker's Movement, which was published in 1971.
		Joan's other book, uncompleted memoir, Jack London and his Daughters, was published in 1990 with a forward by her son, Bart Abbott.
	www.jacklondons.net /joan_london_writing.html (245 words)

	Joan London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Joan London can refer to at least two notable people.
		California author Joan London, daughter of Jack London
		American TV personality Joan Lunden's surname is sometimes misspelled as "London."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joan_London (100 words)

	Jack London's Descendants-An Adventure
		I first met some of Joan's granddaughters at the Jack London Society Symposium held at the Huntington Library in 1998 to which Bart's widow Helen Abbott brought her three daughters Darcy, Chaney and Tarnel.
		The tree, which traces the descendants of Bess and Joan, shows that Joan's son Bart had two daughters with his first wife Lee and three daughters with Helen, and furthermore, that Bart's five daughters have twelve children--all great-great-grand children of Jack London.
		London, as you may know, played a leading role in the revitalization of surfing in Hawaii during his stay there.
	www.jacklondons.net /londons_descendants.html (448 words)

	Jack London
		Her culture was a surface smear, her deepest depth a singing shallow." London left the school before the year was over and went to seek a fortune in the Klondike gold rush of 1897.
		London's financial affairs were in chaos, his teeth gave him incessant pain, and he began to buy plots from a struggling writer, Sinclair Lewis, to produce more articles and stories for sale.
		London had purchased in 1910 a large tract of land near Glen Ellen in Sonoma County, and devoted his energy and money improving and enlarging his Beauty Ranch.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /jlondon.htm (1928 words)

	ERBzine 1272: ERB / Jack London Connection II
		Shortly after the magazine publication of London's two novels, The Abysmal Brute and The Valley of the Moon, both about prize-fighters who turn their backs on violence in favor of a more refined lifestyle, ERB started writing the first half of The Mucker.
		Curiously the hobo gives his name as L. Bridge (London Bridge?) and some ERB scholars have gone so far as to suggest that the character is a thinly disguised Jack London on one of his numerous trips through the hobo jungles of America.
		London's favourite sport was boxing -- he enjoyed the science of the sport and the fact that it evenly pitted man against man. He boxed regularly on land or sea with friend Jim Whitaker and he never failed to attend an important match as a spectator.
	www.erbzine.com /mag12/1272.html (1958 words)

	Joan Armatrading Tickets - Cheap Joan Armatrading Concert Shows Tickets At Onlineseats
		Born on the island of St. Kitts, British singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading was her country's first Black woman to make commercial inroads into her chosen genre, spicing her take on folk with bits of soul and reggae, and has had a remarkably long, consistent career.
		Joan has received the Key to Sydney and was a guest of honor at her home country's Independence Celebrations.
		Joan received a platinum CD for her participation with other artists in the Lou Reed song Perfect Day by the BBC for sales of over 1 million and she has been made an Honorary Fellow of the John Moores University of Liverpool.
	www.onlineseats.com /joan-armatrading-tickets/index.asp (990 words)

	Jack London at the Huntington Library-Jack London Papers
		London's extensive subject file, retained in his own ordering and arrangement, holds hundreds of off-prints and clipped articles that he gathered on topics of interest, ranging from Alaska to yachts and, in between, such topics as copyright, dogs, fiction, gonorrhea, Jung, Molokai, plots, sea fiction, socialism, trade unionism, and woman.
		In 1924, learning that London's widow Charmian sought an appropriate repository for his papers, and displaying impressive foresight concerning the lasting importance of the California author, Huntington dispatched his librarian Leslie Bliss to the Beauty Ranch to examine the papers.
		Thanks to their selfless commitment to London scholarship, London's papers are preserved together and made available to scholars through the research library and to the general public via an exhibitions program.
	www.huntington.org /LibraryDiv/jlpapers.html (998 words)

	Jack London
		London's health recovered, but it was a unique twist of fate that London's life was perhaps saved by a Jesuit priest, since London was an agnostic.
		Joan London writes "Few reviewers bothered any more to criticize his work seriously, for it was obvious that Jack was no longer exerting himself." The ranch is now a National Historic Landmark.
		London's true mГ©tier was the short story....London's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed.
	www.governpub.com /Banned-Books-J-K/Jack_London.php (5110 words)

	Bookreporter.com - GILGAMESH by Joan London
		Joan London's GILGAMESH is an understated and engaging novel of physical and emotional adventure, and the unknowable and invisible bonds that unite some people in life.
		It is 1937, and seventeen-year-old Edith has lived her whole life on the wild Australian coast on a bit of land her father has tried to tame for years.
		London's subdued tone belays the strong emotions of the characters, the urgency of Edith's need to find Aram and the drama of the story.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0802117414.asp (552 words)

	Biographies of Jack London
		Argues that London's socialism was attenuated by his mobility into the middle class and subsequent success.
		A "keeper of the flame," Kingman tends to be an apologist.
		Addresses London's relationships with women, his concept of androgeny, and his examination of masculinity and femininity in the society of his day.
	london.sonoma.edu /Essays/londonbio.html (854 words)

	Larchmont Gazette.com: Obituary: Joan Lear Sher
		The fourth daughter of Joseph Lear and Mollie Berkowitz, Joan grew up in New London, CT, her life enriched by grandparents and cousins, nieces and nephews and more the a dozen aunts and uncles, a full family life that she would create for others for years to come.
		It was in New London that Joan would excel in school and forge the first of many friendships that would last a lifetime.
		Joan never stopped learning, exploring, or working, her zest for life taking her to from travels in five continents to the writing of great authors, experiences she always shared with friends.
	www.larchmontgazette.com /obituaries/20040708sher.html (413 words)

	London, Jack. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Although he was a highly paid writer of extremely popular fiction, London, a socialist, considered his social tracts—The People of the Abyss (1903) and The Iron Heel (1907)—as his most important work.
		Beset in his later years by alcoholism and financial difficulties, London committed suicide at the age of 40.
		See Charmian London (his second wife), The Log of the Snark (1915), Our Hawaii (1917), and The Book of Jack London (2 vol., 1921); biographies by his daughter, Joan London (1969), and by J. Hedrick (1982), A. Sinclair (1983), C. Stasz (1988), and A. Kershaw (1998); studies by E. Labor (1977) and C. Watson (1982).
	www.bartleby.com /65/lo/London-J.html (348 words)

	Gilgamesh by Joan London- R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Her father is dead, and her mother, unable to "take the life," is useful only in calling in the "chooks" at night; she and her sister scrape out a thin life on an unforgiving spit of land overwhelmed by the sound of the sea.
		London can be usefully compared to Marilynne Robinson, who in Housekeeping also created female characters profoundly outside the conventions of the lives lived around them.
		London keeps her sentences short; visual imagery is intensely rendered, yet compressed; Edith travels in closely noticed hermetic worlds.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2003spring/london.shtml (394 words)

	Jack London, his life and books (Jack London State Historic Park) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		Joan London Miller, the first daughter of Jack London and his first wife, Bessie M. London, was born January 15, 1901.
		Joan's other book, a poignant, uncompleted memoir, Jack London and his Daughters, was published in 1990 with a forward by Joan's son, Bart Abbott.
		Becky (Bess) London Fleming, the younger daughter of Jack and Bessie M. London, was born October 20, 1902, died at 90 years of age on March 26, 1992.
	www.parks.sonoma.net /jldaughters.html (345 words)

	Joan London- Vancouver International Writers Festival
		Joan London is the author of two collections of stories, Sister Ships, which won The Age Book of the Year and the Western Australia Week Literary Award, and Letter to Constantine, which won the Steele Rudd Award 1994 and the West Australian Premier's Award for Fiction.
		She was a finalist for the New South Wales Premier's Christina Stead Prize, and the Western Australian Premier's Award for Fiction for her novel Gilgamesh.
		Joan London's travel is generously provided by the Australian Council for the Arts.
	www.writersfest.bc.ca /2003festival/author.php?author=42 (84 words)

	Interview with Joan London: Author of Gilgamesh, 1 August, 2001
		Joan London: I did not visit Armenia until I had started writing the novel and had spent quite some time reading about it.
		Joan London: I started to collect books, photographs, music, which I felt were somehow to do with the time, the place, the atmosphere of this vaguely apprehended mass I called Gilgamesh.
		Joan London: Yes, life in the Group Settlement communities was often
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/australian_literature_reviews/76513 (443 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Review: Gilgamesh by Joan London
		Joan London's Gilgamesh is not a reworking of this epic so much as a quest for its modern shadows.
		When Ada meets Frank Clark at the end of the first world war, she tells him she wants to go far away to another world where there will never be a war.
		Her first stop is London, where a White Russian aunt warns her against leaving for a communist country that is about to go to war, but she refuses to listen.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1074243,00.html (826 words)

	The Experience Corps - About Us - Volunteering in England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		Joan Lewis, Animator with The Experience Corps assists the volunteers from St. Paul’s Church in Tottenham at their club lunch which serves lunches to about 25 residents from local residential and care homes.
		Joan is seconded to The Experience Corps from CSV’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme and is involved in the recruitment of those 50 plus into opportunities within Haringey.
		The London School of Samba is a small educational charity formed in 1984 by a handful of expat South...
	www.experiencecorps.co.uk /xq/ASP/id_Content.176/id_Page_Parent.7/qx/article.htm (323 words)

	Gilgamesh - PowerBookSearch!
		Joan London's glancing, iridescent, intelligent first novel doesn't do anything so crass as suggest a moral.
		This novel by Australian London was a finalist for several major prizes in her native land, and it's easy to see why.
		London's stark prose and command of a wonderfully maintained brooding atmosphere, however, make this an adventure to remember.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0802141218.html (973 words)

	GILGAMESH by Joan London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		That afternoon they were all wearing a white gardenia pinned to their coats and, as they entered, a nun-like sweetness filled the vast draughts of the room.
		It was a convalescent hospital south of London, a gloomy country house requisitioned for the duration, where the soldiers, patched-up, jumpy, bitter, tottered and prowled like ancient temperamental guests.
		Joan London is the author of two colections of stories, Sister Ships, which won the Age Book of the Year 1986 and the Western Australia Week Literary Award, and Letter to Constantine, which won the Steele Rudd Award in 1994 and the West Australian Premier's Award for Fiction.
	www.middlemiss.org /lit/australian/gilgamesh.html (483 words)

	London
		Birth of Jack London in San Francisco, CA -"Jack was raised through infancy by an ex-slave, Virginia Prentiss, who would remain a major maternal figure while the boy grew up." (SM)
		By the time the Londons arrived on the scene the house was ablaze in every corner, the roof had collapsed, and even a stack of lumber some distance away was burning.
		London's eating habits were as suspect -- his favorite dish was barely cooked duck drenched in a sauce made from the bird's blood." (DCS)
	newton.uor.edu /FacultyFolder/jim_sullivan/112/timelines/london.htm (1586 words)

	Amazon.com: Joan Sutherland - The Greatest Hits: Music: Francesco Molinari-Pradelli,Nello Santi,Richard Bonynge,Sir ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra of London, et al.
		Joan Sutherland is truly the voice of the twentieth century.
		Bellini - Norma / Sutherland, Tourangeau, Bonynge ~ Joan Sutherland
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006P4S?v=glance (1980 words)

	Heroic Quest: Joan London's Gilgamesh :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers
		Joan London's Gilgamesh follows the story of Edith and her son Jim, as they search for meaning, and a sense of belonging in their lives.
		Joan London has won a number of prizes, for her previous two short story collections, including the coveted Age Book of the Year for Sister Ship.
		London's writing quality is delicate and rich, combining a strong clear, easy to read linear narrative, with descriptive introspection.
	www.compulsivereader.com /html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=234&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (1104 words)

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