"While staying with Lorrin Thurston, owner of Honolulu's morning Advertiser Jack London started his partially autobiographical novel, Martin Eden, which would be acclaimed by many critics as his best book."
   "It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine, Sept. 1908 to Sept. 1909 and was published in book form by The Macmillan Company, Sept. 1909." - Russ Kingman