Jack London and Anna Strunsky Walling

Anna Strunsky Walling, author, lecturer, and socialist activist, met Jack London in 1899 at an SLP celebration of the Paris Commune. United by similar political views, they spent a great deal of time together discussing social and political issues, and they were part of a wider group of San Francisco intellectuals known as “The Crowd.”
Her first epistolary novel “The Kempton-Wace Letters" written in collaboration with Jack London represents a discussion of the nature of love. Jack, as Herbert Wace, would discuss love from the biological point of view; and Anna, as Dane Kempton, would take the idealistic and emotional viewpoint. The Kempton-Wace Letters were published in 1903, and they constitute one of the most interesting and curious books in the whole literature of love. Enjoy the reading.