The term "yellow peril" gained traction in American discourse after this writer penned a super racist 1904 essay with that title.
Though it is now understood that this writer died of uremia aggravated by a morphine overdose, several older sources mysteriously report his death as a suicide. The Barnum and Bailey Circus temporarily stopped trained animal acts as a result of lobbying from a club named for this author, who raised public awareness of cruelty to circus animals in the foreword to his novel Jerry of the Islands. This one-time oyster pirate established a financially disastrous "Beauty Ranch" in Sonoma County. The first recorded instance of the (*) drunken hallucination of "seeing pink elephants" appears in this author's memoir John Barleycorn. The term "yellow peril" gained traction in American discourse after this writer penned a super racist 1904 essay with that title. This writer's development of scurvy during the Klondike Gold Rush informed his story of a man who dies of hypothermia when he fails to perform the title action. For 10 points, name this author of "To Build a Fire," who wrote about the sled dog Buck in Call of the Wild.
Though it is now understood that this writer died of uremia aggravated by a morphine overdose, several older sources mysteriously report his death as a suicide.
Jack London [or John Griffith London; or John Griffith Chaney] 