<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> London was vulnerable to accusations of plagiarism, both because he was such a conspicuous, prolific, and successful writer and because of his methods of working . He wrote in a letter to Elwyn Hoffman, "expression, you see--with me--is far easier than invention ." He purchased plots and novels from the young Sinclair Lewis and used incidents from newspaper clippings as writing material . </P> <P> In July 1901, two pieces of fiction appeared within the same month: London's "Moon - Face", in the San Francisco Argonaut, and Frank Norris' "The Passing of Cock - eye Blacklock", in Century Magazine . Newspapers showed the similarities between the stories, which London said were "quite different in manner of treatment, (but) patently the same in foundation and motive ." London explained both writers based their stories on the same newspaper account . A year later, it was discovered that Charles Forrest McLean had published a fictional story also based on the same incident . </P> <P> Egerton Ryerson Young claimed The Call of the Wild (1903) was taken from Young's book My Dogs in the Northland (1902). London acknowledged using it as a source and claimed to have written a letter to Young thanking him . </P>

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