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.
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] 