Earle Laboratory

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Earle Gene Labor (born March 3, 1928 in Tuskahoma , Oklahoma ) is an American literary scholar who has made a name for himself with work on Jack London .

Life

Labor graduated from Southern Methodist University (SMU) - BA 1949, MA 1952 - and received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1961. PhD. Since 1955 he has taught at the Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport (to which he is still associated as emeritus ), interrupted only from 1962 to 1966, during which he was professor of English literature at Adrian College in the state of Michigan . Laboratory's publications include essays on writers such as Henry James , Stephen Crane , Ernest Hemingway , and William Faulkner , but Jack London has been particularly interested in Jack London for decades: in 1991 he founded a research center at his college ( Jack London Research Center ) with an attached museum, the he is curator to this day , in 2013 he published a highly acclaimed biography of London by Farrar Straus Giroux .

Labor was also active as a weight lifter from 1947 to 1959. So he trained with the team of the SMU, which won a title at the Dallas Open Championships in 1948. Before joining the US Navy in 1952, he held the light-heavyweight title in the Texan Amateur Athletic Union .

Fonts

  • (Ed. With Wilford L. Guerin et al.): A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. Harper, New York 1966.
  • (Ed. With Wilford L. Guerin et al.): Mandala: Literature for Critical Analysis. Harper, New York 1970.
  • (Ed.): The Future of College English. College English Association, 1972.
  • Jack London. Twayne, Boston 1974.
  • (Ed. With Robert C. Leitz III. And I. Milo Shepard): The Letters of Jack London. 3 volumes. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 1988.
  • (Ed.): Jack London: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Short Stories. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1990.
  • (Ed. With Robert C. Leitz III. And I. Milo Shepard): Short Stories of Jack London: Authorized One-Volume Edition. Macmillan, New York 1990.
  • (Ed. With Robert C. Leitz III. And I. Milo Shepard): The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Stanford University Press, Stanford CA 1993.
  • (Ed.): The Portable Jack London. Penguin, New York 1994.
  • Jack London: An American Life. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-374-17848-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Laboratory, Earle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laboratory, Earle Gene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuskahoma , Oklahoma