This document summarizes and provides quotes from several famous American writers, including Jack London, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It provides biographical details and highlights some of their most notable works. For Jack London, it discusses his life, career returning from the Klondike and working as a journalist, and popular novels including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Martin Eden. For the other writers, it briefly outlines their lives and important works like Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and works by Edgar Allan Poe and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

1. World-Known American
Writers
Presenter: Djugostran Valeriu, 1LM3
Course: American Culture and
Civilization

2. Jack London
Jack London was born John
Griffith Chaney on January 12,
1876, in San Francisco,
California. After working in the
Klondike, London returned home
and began publishing stories. His
novels, including The Call of the
Wild, White Fang and Martin
Eden, placed London among the
most popular American authors
of his time. London, who was
also a journalist and an
outspoken socialist, died in 1916.

3. The Call of the
Wild
“I would rather be a
superb meteor,
every atom of me
in magnificent
glow, than a sleepy
and permanent
planet”

4. The White Fang
“But the Wild is the
Wild, and motherhood is
motherhood, at all times
fiercely protective
whether in the Wild or
out of it.”

5. Martin Eden
“It is not in what you
succeed in doing that
you get your joy, but in
the doing of it.”

6. Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American
author born on August 1, 1819 in
New York. The author penned many
books and later in life wrote poetry.
Best known for his novel Moby
Dick, Melville was only heralded as
one of America’s greatest writers
after his death on September 28,
1891. The Library of Congress
honored him as its first writer to
collect and publish.

7. “Great pains, small gains for those who ask the
world to solve them; it cannot solve itself”

8. Mark Twain
Born on November 30, 1835, in
Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. Clemens wrote under the
pen name Mark Twain and went on to pen several
novels, including two major classics of American
literature, The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was
also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur
and inventor. Twain died on April 21, 1910, in
Redding, Connecticut.

9. “The most important
days in your life are
the day you are burn
and the day you are
found out why”

10. “Just because
you’re taught that
something’s right
and everyone
believes it’s right, it
don’t make it
right.”

11. Edgar Allan Poe
Born January 19, 1809, Boston,
Massachusetts, U.S. American short-
story writer, poet, critic, and editor.
Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of mystery
and horror initiated the modern
detective story, and the atmosphere
in his tales of horror is unrivaled in
American fiction. His ‘The
Raven’ (1845) numbers among the
best-known poems in national
literature.

12. “All that we see or seem is but a
dream within a dream”

13. Francis Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on
September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
His first novel’s success made him
famous and let him marry the woman
he loved, but he later descended into drinking and
his wife had a mental breakdown. Following the
unsuccessful ‘Tender is the Night’, Fitzgerald
moved to Hollywood and became a scriptwriter. He
died of a heart attack in 1940, at age 44, his final
novel only half completed.