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Jack London
Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative...
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his psuedonym George Orwell, was an English author. His work is marked by a profound conscientiousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism,...
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- Leo Tolstoy,
- Émile Zola,
- Henry Fielding,
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- Émile Zola,
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- T. S. Eliot,
- Cyril Connolly
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- Ignazio Silone,
- Albert Camus,
- Margaret Atwood,
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- Albert Camus,
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (pronounced /ˈkɛruːæk, ˈkɛrəwæk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American author, poet and painter. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Kerouac's work was very...
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- Henry Miller,
- Walt Whitman,
- Arthur Rimbaud,
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- Walt Whitman,
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- x Peers:
- Gregory Corso,
- Allen Ginsberg,
- William S. Burroughs
- Allen Ginsberg,
- x Influenced:
- Hunter S. Thompson,
- Elizabeth Young,
- Jim Morrison,
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- Elizabeth Young,
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. His most famous character — created in the pages of the Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales — is Conan the...
- x Influenced By:
- Clark Ashton Smith,
- Edgar Rice Burroughs,
- Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany,
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- Edgar Rice Burroughs,
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- x Peers:
- H. P. Lovecraft
- x Influenced:
- Fritz Leiber,
- Gary Gygax,
- George R. R. Martin,
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- Gary Gygax,
Richard Wright
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an African-American author.
Wright, the grandson of former slaves, was born on the Rucker plantation in Roxie, Mississippi, in Franklin County, just outside of Natchez.
His family...
- x Influenced By:
- Marcel Proust,
- Sinclair Lewis,
- Gertrude Stein,
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- Sinclair Lewis,
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- x Peers:
- Albert Camus,
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- x Influenced:
- Gwendolyn Brooks,
- Ralph Ellison,
- James Baldwin,
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- Ralph Ellison,
Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry (28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was a British poet and novelist who was best known for his novel, Under the Volcano.
Lowry was born in Wallasey, in the English county of Cheshire (now Merseyside), and was educated at The Leys School and...
- x Influenced By:
- Herman Melville,
- Conrad Aiken,
- Ernest Hemingway,
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- Conrad Aiken,
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- Don DeLillo,
- David Markson
Anton LaVey
Anton Szandor LaVey, (April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997) born Howard Stanton Levey, was the American founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan as well as a writer, occultist, and musician. He was the author of The Satanic Bible and the founder...
- x Influenced By:
- H. L. Mencken,
- Jack London,
- Friedrich Nietzsche,
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- Jack London,
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Michael Bishop
Michael Lawson Bishop (born November 12, 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an award-winning American writer. Over four decades and thirty books, he has created a body of work that stands among the most admired in modern science fiction and fantasy...
- x Influenced By:
- Flannery O'Connor,
- Jack London,
- William Faulkner,
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- Jack London,
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Scott Sigler
Scott Carl Sigler is a contemporary American author of science fiction and horror as well as an avid podcaster. Originally from Michigan he now resides in San Francisco, California with his wife and two dogs.
Raised in Cheboygan, Michigan Sigler's...
- x Influenced By:
- Jack London,
- Stephen King,
- Carlo Wolff
- Stephen King,
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- x Influenced:
- J. C. Hutchins
Armstrong Sperry
Armstrong Wells Sperry (November 7, 1897–April 26, 1976) was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. His books include historical fiction and biography, often set on sailing ships, and stories of boys from Polynesia, Asia and...
- x Influenced By:
- Herman Melville,
- Jack London,
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Jack London,
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Cork Graham
"Cork" Graham, aka Frederick Graham (November 29, 1964 - ) is a former combat photographer imprisoned in Vietnam for illegally entering the country while looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd.
Frederick "Cork" Graham was born on November 29,...
- x Influenced By:
- Jack London,
- Theodore Roosevelt,
- Rudyard Kipling,
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- Theodore Roosevelt,
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- x Influenced:
Vincent Louis Carrella
Vincent Louis Carrella (born June 26, 1965) is a pioneering interactive story-teller and game developer and an American fiction novelist and short story writer. His debut novel Serpent Box, was published on February 26, 2008, based on an initial...
- x Influenced By:
- Cormac McCarthy,
- Don DeLillo,
- Jack London,
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- Don DeLillo,
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Garret Schuelke
Garret Schuelke is a writer, poet, journalist, lyricist, photographer, and painter born, and currently residing in, Alpena, Michigan. He attends Alpena Community College and plans on attending Western Michigan University in fall 2009. His work has...
- x Influenced By:
- Ambrose Bierce,
- Raegan Butcher,
- Woody Guthrie,
- more ▼
- Raegan Butcher,
- Peers
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- x Peers:
- Raegan Butcher,
- K.J. Stevens,
- Terry Wooten
- K.J. Stevens,
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