American Author Jack London Many authors have specific distinctions in the way they write. They add their own tones and voice to give character and personality to their style of writing. Jack London is among these authors but in his own sense different. Jack London is notorious for focusing his stories on the wild outdoors of the north. In two of London’s most famous books, Call of the WIld and White Fang, he writes about the Klondike Gold Rush. The main characters in both novels are dogs. One learning to survive in the wilderness and one learning to adapt to domestication. This theme supports London’s notorious writing style about the wild. His choice to write about such events in these area and time specific settings can be traced to his childhood growing up in the middle of the Yukon Gold Rush himself. Jack like any author uses his prior experiences as a platform for his writing. What I think makes London’s tone and voice in writing these books so fascinating and successful is the detail in which he writes to convey his setting to the reader. He so accurately describes the feel of the air and the silence of the day along with the beauty of the sky to bring and mental image to anyone’s mind. This keeps the reader intrigued and interested along with a clear vision of an American habitat. This vision of Northern American tundra is crucial to the draw of the novels and short stories London writes because it does convey American culture and and the living conditions of the Great North. London cultivates his novels and short stories around these settings and they are the reason his writing was and still is so popular. Thus this prestigious American writer did not only reveal to a world the wonders of the North but also captivated their interest in the strive for gold in the early 1900’s. Using a wondrous way of description along with voice and tone giving his work the fabrication that allowed it to flourish as American literature, London’s wild tales successfully flourished and are still regarded as American classics.