Howard Lachtman Explained
Howard Lachtman |
Birth Name: | Howard Lawrence Lachtman |
Occupation: | Critic, editor, author |
Education: | M.A., Ph.D.[1] |
Notable Works: | Sherlock Slept Here[2] |
Howard Lawrence Lachtman is an American academic, literary critic, editor and author, who has written extensively on the life and works of Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle,[1] [3] and on crime fiction as a whole.[4]
Early life and career
Howard attended Lowell High School, UC Berkeley and UC Hastings Law,[5] and obtained his M.A and Ph.D. from University of the Pacific.[1]
Assessing Lachtman's contribution to a 1979 collection of London's own essays entitled Jack London: No Mentor But Myself, Los Angeles Times critic Sal Noto states:
Reviewing Lachtman's 1982 anthology, Sporting Blood: Jack London's Greatest Sports Writing, the El Paso Herald-Post's David Innes notes that the book "could serve as a pattern for what a good theme anthology should be," adding that "Lachtman's introductory essay is a fine one, as are his short, scene-setting paragraphs."[6] Regarding the 1984 collection, Young Wolf: The Early Adventure Stories of Jack London, El Paso Times critic Dale L. Walker writes:
Writing two years later in the same paper, Walker calls Lachtman's Sherlock Slept Here a "superb and authoritative little study [of] Arthur Conan Doyle's debt to the United States," commending in particular Lachtman's "thoroughly fascinating analysis of that most American of Holmes stories, 'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor'."[2]
Lachtman also reviewed books—primarily mysteries—for the Los Angeles Times between 1976 and 1981, and, from 1977 to 1986, for the San Francisco Examiner.[7] [8] [9] [10]
A decidedly unimposing fictional character named Howard Lachtman, who happens to be at least the nominal leader of a small group of Sherlock Holmes devotees, figures prominently in Chapter II of Stuart Kaminsky's 1983 detective novel He Done Her Wrong.[11]
Works
Books
Essays
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/43017763?searchText=Howard%20Lachtman&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DHoward%2BLachtman&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A2444c98e611a3da2106b9c5becb6e629 "Man and Superwoman in Jack London's 'The Kanaka Surf'"].] Western American Literature. Summer 1972. Vol. VII, No. 2, pp. 101–110https://www.jstor.org/stable/43017763?searchText=Howard%20Lachtman&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DHoward%2BLachtman&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A2444c98e611a3da2106b9c5becb6e629
- "All That Glitters: Jack London's Gold". Jack London Newsletter. September–December, 1972. pp. 172–175, 196–178.
- "Doyle in Dreamland: The education of an eminent Victorian". The Los Angeles Times. October 30, 1977. Sec. Reviews, pp. 3, 20.
- "The Nine Lives of Jack London". The San Francisco Examiner. November 6, 1977.
- "Oscar in California: A Wilde West Show". The Los Angeles Times. September 24, 1978.
- "Willard Wright's Philo Vance: A Dandy in Acid". Los Angeles Times. June 3, 1979. Sec. Reviews, pp. 3, 25.
- "Mysterious Case of the Gardner-Chandler Friendship". The Los Angeles Times. January 4, 1981.
- "When Jack London Answered the Call of the Orange Blossoms". The Los Angeles Times. March 30, 1981. Sec. Reviews, pg. 3.
Poetry
Further reading
External links
Notes and References
- Hastings, Jack (November 20, 1981). "Reading Room". Asbury Park Press. p. 40.
- Walker, Dale L. (January 5, 1986). "Author Describes Conan Doyle's Love for U.S.". El Paso Times. p. 58.
- Monsky, Susan (July 8, 1984). "Short Takes". The Boston Globe.
- https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=EXP19840322.1.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%252522Howard+Lachtman%252522-------1 "Writers talk about craft"
- https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93427487/the-san-francisco-examiner/ "They're Engaging: Lachtman-Corren"
- Innes, David (March 12, 1982). "Bookshelf". El Paso Herald-Post. p. 54. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
- Lachtman, Howard (November 7, 1976). "Fantasy Fiction by Jack London". Los Angeles Times. p. 225.
- Lachtman, Howard (November 29, 1981). "West View". Los Angeles Times. p. 206.
- Lachtman, Howard (May 29, 1977). "Street Smart and Courtroom Wise". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 249.
- Lachtman, Howard (January 26, 1986). "The New Mysteries: Murder Among the Animals and Music". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 291.
- Kaminsky, Stuart (1983). He Done Her Wrong. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 22–37 .
- Lachtman, Howard (Winter 1970). Western Humanities Review. p. 30.
- Lachtman, Howard (Winter 1972). Poet Lore. pp. 344–345.
- Miner, Virginia Scott (February 6, 1972). "Kansas City's 10-Year Poetry Explosion". The Kansas City Star. p. 154, 157.
- SoundingsMag. November 15, 2021.
- SoundingsMag. December 2, 2021.
- SoundingsMag. April 13, 2023.