Centenary Professor Selected for Double Duty at National Conference

Dr. Earle Labor, Wilson Professor of American Literature at Centenary College, is scheduled for double duty for the Annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association at the San Francisco Marriott this week, March 19-22.

First, Professor Labor will present a paper on "The Agony and Ecstasy: Writing the 'Definitive' Jack London Biography."  Labor, Director of the Jack London Museum and Archives at Centenary, is widely regarded as the world's leading Jack London scholar.  He is currently working on his final draft of the Jack London biography under contract with the distinguished New York publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Dr. Labor has also been appointed to chair another session on "Jack London's Life and Works: Journalism and Other Non-Fiction."  This session will include papers by four leading London scholars:  Dan Wichlan, editor of two recent major contributions to Londoniana—Jack London: TheUnpublished and Uncollected Articles and Essays and The Complete Poetry of Jack London;  Jay Williams, former Editor of The Jack London Journal; Jonah Raskin, Editor of London's Writings Senior Managing Editor of Critical Inquiry at the University of Chicago;  Jonah Raskin at Sonoma State University and editor of The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution, published b y the University of California Press; and Susan Nuernberg at the University of Wisconsin/Oskosh and former President of the Jack London Society and veteran author and editor of numerous books and articleson Jack London.

Professor Labor has himself published eight books on London, including the Stanford Editions of London's letters and short stories.