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Joan London (January 15, 1901 – January 18, 1971) was an American writer and the older of two daughters born to Jack London and his first wife, Elizabeth "Bess" Maddern London. Personal life. Joan's sibling, Becky, was born on October 20, 1902. Both children were born in Piedmont, California.
Joan Lunden (born Joan Elise Blunden, September 19, 1950) is an American journalist, an author, and a television host. Lunden was the co-host of ABC 's Good Morning America from 1980 to 1997, and has authored over ten books. She has appeared on the Biography program and Biography Channel .
- 1975–present
- Journalist
Joan in her 40s. Joan London was born to Jack and Bess Maddern London on January 15, 1901. Her father was so smitten that he kept a special photo album to memorialize her importance for him. Unfortunately, he would leave her daily presence when she was only two and a half. She and her younger sister Becky lived with their mother, who was ...
Australian writer Joan London is the author of the short-story collections, Sister Ships and Other Stories and Letter to Constantine, and the novel Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh, published in 2001, is the first full-length novel written by Joan London. It is inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest known poem. [1] In 2002, the novel was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award [2] and was selected as The Age Book of the Year for Fiction. [3] The book has been published with ...
- 272 pp
- Joan London
- 2001
The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera pertaining to the life and work of California writer and labor activist Joan London (1901-1971), the eldest daughter of author Jack London (1876-1916). Since much of London's work focused on her father, many items in the collection specifically relate to the life and writings of Jack ...
25. März 2003 · Joan London: I started to collect books, photographs, music, which I felt were somehow to do with the time, the place, the atmosphere of this vaguely apprehended mass I called Gilgamesh. I kept on reading, about the Second World War, about the Orient Express, about Group Settlement in Western Australia , about the Depression etc. Meanwhile I ...
