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Jack London, the number one author of the naturalistic era, liked to explore the sea and ice in his 20s and as a teen. London read all he could. Soon his stories were getting sold to newspapers. He dropped out of school and went back. He also went to college. But he quit ½ way through his freshmen year. Next, he headed to the Klondike to search for gold. He soon became sick up there. Jack was convinced that life was a struggle and only the strong survive. Jack London then started writing novels and became a millionaire from his novels. His most famous novels are The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and To Build a Fire. .
An excerpt from one of his finest novels, The Call of the Wild, is,""The primitive beast was strong in Buck and under fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. He was to busy adjusting himself to the new life to feel at ease. Not only did he not pick fights, he avoided them whenever possible. There was a kind of careful thoroughness in his attitude. He was not prone to recklessness and sudden action. In bitter hatred between him and Spitz, he showed no impatience and avoided all quarrelsome acts."".
Now coming in 2nd place is the author of Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. And that is John Steinbeck! He was the most widely praised and successful author that showed the sense of injustice and how the Great Depression affected people living on farms. John grew up in the time of humane hardship in the Great Depression. Steinbeck wrote his novels to show poverty and suffering of his time. He tried to make a difference with his writings. .
"O.K. Someday- we're gona get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and--.
"An' live off the fatta the lan',"" Lennie shouted. "An' have rabbits. Go on George. Tell me about what we're gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cage and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it.