Earle Labor

Earle Gene Labor (March 3, 1928 – September 15, 2022)^[1] was an American writer. A George Wilson Professor (Emeritus) of American Literature at Centenary College of Louisiana, his research and teaching career was devoted to the study of the American author, Jack London. He taught the first undergraduate course devoted to London at Utah State University in 1966. Labor taught the first-ever graduate course on London in 1973-74 (University of Aarhus, Denmark) while on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Labor received his B.A. and M.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1949 and 1952, respectively. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1961. He was the founder and curator of The Jack London Museum and Research Center at Centenary College. Classes he has taught include: a seminar on Jack London; a class on American gothic fiction 'The Power of Darkness'; a seminar on the American novel; a two-semester survey course on American literature; and several classes on Critical Approaches to Literature. Jack London: An American Life received the 2014 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Biography.

In 1991, Labor received the "Humanist of the Year Award" from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

In 2016, the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University published Labor's memoir, The Far Music.

Labor died in Shreveport, Louisiana, on September 15, 2022, at the age of 94.^[1]

GREAT SHORT WORKS OF JACK LONDON, Harper Perennial Classics Series, Editor (Harper & Row, 1965; rev. ed., 1970).

A HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE, Co-Author with Wilfred L. Guerin, et al. (Harper & Row, 1966; 6th ed. Oxford UP, 2011).

MANDALA: LITERATURE FOR CRITICAL ANALYSIS, Co-Editor with Guerin, et al. (Harper & Row, 1970).

THE FUTURE OF COLLEGE ENGLISH: A CEA CHAP BOOK, Editor (The College English Association, 1972).

TUSAS JACK LONDON (Twayne, 1974; rev. ed. with Jeanne Campbell Reesman, 1994).

JACK LONDON: A KLONDIKE TRILOGY, Editor (Neville, 1983).

LIT: LITERATURE AND INTERPRETIVE TECHNIQUES, Co-Editor with Guerin, et al. (Harper & Row, 1986).

THE LETTERS OF JACK LONDON, 3 Vols., Co-Editor with Robert C. Leitz and I. Milo Shepard (Stanford UP, 1988).

THE CALL OF THE WILD, WHITE FANG, AND OTHER STORIES BY JACK LONDON, Co-Editor with Leitz, World's Classics Series (Oxford UP, 1990).

THE STORIES OF JACK LONDON: AUTHORIZED ONE-VOLUME EDITION, Co-Editor with Robert Leitz and I. Milo Shepard (Macmillan, 1991).

LAS HISTORIAS COMPLETAS DE JACK LONDON, 3 vols., coeditado con Robert Leitz e I. Milo Shepard (Stanford UP, 1993).

THE PORTABLE JACK LONDON, Editor (Viking/Penguin, 1994).

ENCENDER UN FUEGO Y OTROS CUENTOS, Epílogo, World's Best Reading Series (Reader's Digest Association, 1994).

SIGUIENDO LOS PASOS DE JACK LONDON, de Vil Bykov, coeditor junto con Susan Nuernberg y Hensley C. Woodbridge (www.jacklondons.net, 2005).

JACK LONDON: EL LOBO DE MAR Y CUENTOS SELECCIONADOS, Introducción, Signet Classics (New American Library, Penguin, 2013).

JACK LONDON: UNA VIDA AMERICANA (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013). Recibió el premio Golden Spur de la Western Writers of America a la mejor biografía de no ficción del género western.

LA MÚSICA LEJANA: UNAS MEMORIAS (Biblioteca DeGolyer, SMU, 2016). Celebra la singular pero olvidada "Era de las brillantes expectativas" en Estados Unidos entre el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el comienzo de la Guerra de Corea (1945-1950).

JACK LONDON: LA LLAMADA DE LO SALVAJE, COLMILLO BLANCO Y CUENTOS SELECCIONADOS, Introducción, Serie Clásicos de Penguin (Penguin/Random House, noviembre de 2019).

• Entrada de getCITED sobre Earle Labor , consultada el 16 de agosto de 2005.
• "Entrevista con el Dr. Earle Labor, estudioso de Jack London" . El mundo de Jack London . Archivado del original el 25 de octubre de 2005. Consultado el 16 de agosto de 2005 .