About the Author

Vil M. Bykov graduated from Moscow State University in 1956 and has done postgraduate research at the University of California, Berkeley, the Huntington Library, UCLA, and Oxford University. He defended his dissertation on Jack London's Novels at Moscow State University in 1968. He holds a Ph.D. and the Diploma of a Senior Researcher of the Russian Academy of Sciences in History. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Jack London Foundation.

He has published nine books, five of them about Jack London. He is the co-author of two other books and the author of over one hundred articles and monograph studies (in Russian, English, German, Bulgarian and Spanish). He has translated over fifty of Jack London's stories, articles and a novel, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. He has edited with introductions books in Russian on Jack London by Irving Stone and Philip Foner. He is the compiler of a four-volume set and of collections of Jack London's sports and science fiction writing. He has translated into Russian Russ Kingman's The Pictorial Life of Jack London, which was printed by Moscow State University Publishing House in 1998.

He is the author of introductions to the collected works in Russian of French writers Gustave Flaubert and Emile Zola, and to Jack London's dog novels, printed in English in the USSR. He is also the author of many essays on foreign and Russian authors.

Copyright � 2004 by Vil M. Bykov