James E. Sisson papers, circa 1950-1986.

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James E. Sisson papers, circa 1950-1986.

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Consists of Sisson's personal and research correspondence, writings, and research files on Jack London. Correspondence is chiefly with friends and other London scholars, including Tony Bubka, Marlan Beilke, Becky London Fleming, Russ Kingman, Earle Labor, and Joan London. Includes bibliographies and indices relating to London's writings and correspondence, along with drafts and proofs of Sisson's own published and unpublished works on London. Research materials gathered by Sisson relate to papers, theses, dissertations, and plays about London's life and works, along with bibliographies, reviews, and articles about London. Clippings files concern London's family, friends, homes, and scholars, and include a collection of London cartoons, drawings, and other ephemera. Microfilm copies of 27 volumes of Jack London scrapbooks, 1899-1942.

Papers 9 cartons, 5 boxes (15.4 linear ft.)Microfilm of Jack London scrapbooks 10 reels.

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London, Becky

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Kingman, Russ

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London, Jack, 1876-1916

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Jack London was born in San Francisco January 12, 1876. He led an adventurous life, only beginning his career as an author in the 1890s. He wrote short stories, serials, essays, articles, verse and novels. He died November 22, 1916 in Sonoma County, CA. From the description of Jack London papers, 1897-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387554 American novelist and short story writer. From the description of Chronometer method [navigational documents] [1907?]...

Sisson, James E.

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James E. Sisson III, 1917-1986, of Vernon, Alabama, began studies in 1960 at the University of California, Berkeley, with Professor James D. Hart, and began his research on Jack London in 1970. Sisson's contributions to the field of Jack London scholarship were impressive, and Jack London scholars around the world respected his work. He collected and published various of London's writings, and complied several London bibliographies. Sisson regularly published pamphlets, articles, and reviews on ...

Bubka, Tony

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London, Joan, 1948-

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Joan London was born in Oakland, California, in 1901, to Jack London (1876-1916) and his first wife, Elizabeth Maddern London. She began a career in writing early in life with a series of newspaper and periodical articles in the 1920s. From 1926-1927, her novel, Sylvia Coventry, was published as a serial within the Oakland Tribune. In the late 1930s, Joan London began compiling information on the life and work of her father, material that she would use in writing his biography, Jack London and h...

Beilke, Marlan, 1940-

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Labor, Earle, 1928-....

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