American author and advocate of socialism Jack London (1876-1916) wrote popular adventure stories and social tracts based on unusual personal experiences. At their best, his works are powerful and moving narratives. Jack London, in full John Griffith Lon...
Jack London has been recognized as one of the most dynamic figures in American literature. Sailor, hobo, Klondike argonaut, social crusader, war correspondent, scientific farmer, self-made millionaire, global traveler, and adventurer, London captured the...
"No literary historian but sooner or later must reckon with Jack London," Fred Lewis Pattee asserts in The Development of the American Short Story (1923), for "he represented more than an individual: he was the product of a literary condition in America....
Byline: State Journal staff It's all downhill from here. Officially, summer began at 6:59 p.m. Friday, so today is the first full day of summer. Only thing is, the days are starting to get shorter already, at first imperceptibly, but soon...
Today is a highly significant date, big enough for Congress to declare a national holiday: Call it Daylight Saving Day or, better yet, Spring Forward Day. It was Congress, after all, that in 1967 made permanent the idea of stretching our spring evenings...
WASTING WORK TIME: The average employee's 9-to-5 workday is more like 9-to-3 when you consider the time spent slacking off, a new survey has found.The average worker wastes 1.7 hours of a typical 8.5-hour workday, according to a nonscientific survey by Salary.com, which provides software...
NASCAR stars paid respects to former chairman Bill France Jr. on Thursday in a short, simple funeral service that was far more fuss than he would have wanted.About 2,000 people filled the Performing Arts Center at Bethune-Cookman University to say goodbye to France in a...
