The Kempton Wace Letters — Jack London

The Kempton Wace Letters was a 1903 epistolary novel written jointly by Americans Jack London and Anna Strunsky then based in San Francisco California It was published anonymously The novel presents a discussion of the philosophy of love and sex written in the form of a series of letters between two men Herbert Wace a young scientist and Dane Kempton an elderly poet Writer Jack London wrote Wace s letters and Anna Strunsky wrote Kempton s In the late 19th century the authors were part of a San Francisco radical literary group known as The Crowd Kempton makes the case for feeling and emotion while Wace proceeds scientifically and analyzes love in Darwinian terms