Earle Labor

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Earle Labor (b. 1928) is the official biographer of novelist Jack London and curator of the Jack London Museum in Shreveport. He is also Wilson Professor of American Literature at Centenary College of Louisiana. He is one of the oldest professors at Centenary College as well as one of its most respected scholars. Classes he currently teaches and has in the recent past are among others: a class on Jack London, a class on American gothic fiction titled 'The Power of Darkness', A seminar class on the American novel, and a two semester class overviewing American literature. He is fond of the colon punctuation mark as well as the dash. Early in his career he wrote an article on Henry James's story 'The Real thing' which made a crucial insight into the meaning of the story by explicating the implication of a dash mark in the last sentence of the story. The Meriam-Webster dictionary has taken one of its definitions of funambulism from an essay of his on the subject. It is a common strategy of his to identify characters in literary works who demonstrate the psychological trait of funambulism.

[edit] Bibliography

• Jack London, 1974
• The Letters of Jack London, 1988
• Short Stories of Jack London: Authorized one-volume edition, 1990
• The Call of the wild, White Fang, and other stories, 1990
• The Complete short stories of Jack London, 1993
• The Portable Jack London, 1994
• Jack London Rev. edition, 1994

[edit] References

• getCITED entry on Earle Labor, accessed on August 16, 2005.
• Interview With Jack London Scholar Dr. Earle Labor. The World of Jack London. Retrieved on August 16, 2005.