Background
Labor, Earle Gene was born on March 3, 1928 in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Earle Labor and Sylvia Kirkpatrick Steger.
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A revelatory look at the life of the great American author--and how it shaped his most beloved works Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast--an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed bestselling books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf. The bare outlines of his story suggest a classic rags-to-riches tale, but London the man was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage, but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest paid writer in the United States, he was nevertheless forced to work under constant pressure for money. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice and a lover of humanity, he was also subject to spells of bitter invective, especially as his health declined. Branded by shortsighted critics as little more than a hack who produced a couple of memorable dog stories, he left behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth--at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Labor resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.
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literature and language professor
Labor, Earle Gene was born on March 3, 1928 in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Earle Labor and Sylvia Kirkpatrick Steger.
AB, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1949. Master of Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1961.
Instructor English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1950-1952. Assistant sales manager Haggar Company, 1954-1955. Instructor English Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1955-1956, assistant professor English, 1959-1962, George A. Wilson professor American Literature Louisiana, since 1966.
Teaching assistant University Wisconsin, Madison, 1956-1959. Head department English, chairman department Humanities Adrian (Michigan) College, 1962-1966. Advisory board Jack London Foundation, Glen Ellen, California, since 1973.
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Member Modern Language Association, College English Association (editor 1967-1975, president 1977-1979, Distinguished Service award 1983, Lifetime Membership award 1990), International Association University Professors of English, Jack London Society (board directors since 1990), National Association Scholars and Critics.
Married Betty Garrett, September 21, 1952 (deceased August 1989). Children: Royce, Kirk, Kyle, Isabel. Married Gayle Johnson, May 25, 1996.
1 child, Andrea.