Howard Lachtman

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| birth_name = Howard Lawrence Lachtman

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| occupation = Critic, editor, author

| education = M.A., Ph.D.Hastings, Jack (November 20, 1981). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=93458490 "Reading Room"]. Asbury Park Press. p. 40.

| notable works = Sherlock Slept HereWalker, Dale L. (January 5, 1986). [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93441782/el-paso-times/ "Author Describes Conan Doyle's Love for U.S."]. El Paso Times. p. 58.

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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,Monsky, Susan (July 8, 1984). [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93460165/the-boston-globe/ "Short Takes"]. The Boston Globe. and on crime fiction as a whole.[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"]. Sacramento City College Express. March 12, 1984. p. 5.

Early life and career

Howard attended Lowell High School, UC Berkeley and UC Hastings Law,[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93427487/the-san-francisco-examiner/ "They're Engaging: Lachtman-Corren"]. The San Francisco Examiner. January 12, 1964. Sec. Reviews, pg. 12. and obtained his M.A and Ph.D. from University of the Pacific.

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:

{{center|This collection also contains a broad and perceptive foreword by Howard Lachtman, who has three books in the making on London. Lachtman shows the unfamiliar side of the London persona; he pares away much of the myth surrounding the man and offers a candid look at a writer who has all too often been dismissed or overlooked by critics of American literature.Noto, Sal (June 24, 1979). [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104769900/the-los-angeles-times/ "Jack London's Star on the Rise"]. Los Angeles Times Book Review p. 11. Retrieved July 1, 2022.}}

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."Innes, David (March 12, 1982). [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104764060/el-paso-herald-post/ "Bookshelf"]. El Paso Herald-Post. p. 54. Retrieved July 1, 2022. Regarding the 1984 collection, Young Wolf: The Early Adventure Stories of Jack London, El Paso Times critic Dale L. Walker writes:

{{center|Lachtman's fine collection of London's early career adventure stories adds an important link to an astonishingly long chain of London stories published in the past two decades. [It] includes some of London's best early work. Here are 16 stories that ought to be read in high school and college classrooms today in lieu of the shopworn "To Build a Fire".Walker, Dale L. (July 29, 1984). [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104781160/el-paso-times/ "Rekindled Interest Increases Jack London Collections"]. Los Angeles Times Book Review p. 58. Retrieved July 1, 2022.}}

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'."

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.Lachtman, Howard (November 7, 1976). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=93500381 "Fantasy Fiction by Jack London"]. Los Angeles Times. p. 225.Lachtman, Howard (November 29, 1981). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=93500947 "West View"]. Los Angeles Times. p. 206.Lachtman, Howard (May 29, 1977). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=93496341 "Street Smart and Courtroom Wise"]. The San Francisco Examiner. p. 249.Lachtman, Howard (January 26, 1986). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=93496966 "The New Mysteries: Murder Among the Animals and Music"]. The San Francisco Examiner. p. 291.

A decidedly unimposing fictional character named Howard Lachtman,{{efn| So unimposing, in fact, that the novel's narrator/protagonist promptly likens him to the aptly named, famously unimposing Hollywood character actor Donald Meek.}} 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.Kaminsky, Stuart (1983). [https://archive.org/details/hedoneherwrong0000kami/page/22/mode/2up?q=%22howard+lachtman%22+lachtman He Done Her Wrong]. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 22–37 {{ISBN|9780312364915}}.

Works

=Books=

[https://archive.org/details/sportingbloodsel0000lond/page/n5/mode/2up Sporting Blood: Selections from Jack London's greatest sports writing]. Novato, CA : Presidio Press. 1981 {{OCLC|1151317362}}.
[https://archive.org/details/youngwolfearlyad00lond/mode/2up Young Wolf: The Early Adventure Stories of Jack London]. Santa Barbara, CA : Capra Press. 1984. {{ISBN|9780884962106}}.
[https://archive.org/details/sherlockslepther0000lach/mode/2up Sherlock Slept Here ; being a brief history of the singular adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in America, with some observations upon the exploits of Mr. Sherlock Holmes]. Santa Barbara, CA : Capra Press. 1985. {{ISBN|088496227X}}.

=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. 101–110[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]
"All That Glitters: Jack London's Gold". Jack London Newsletter. September–December, 1972. pp. [https://www.mediafire.com/view/756ipnw5n61w8d4/ 172–175], [https://www.mediafire.com/view/98xr5zbduga04fk/ 196–178].
"Doyle in Dreamland: The education of an eminent Victorian". The Los Angeles Times. October 30, 1977. Sec. Reviews, pp. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93483029/the-los-angeles-times/ 3], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93483119/the-los-angeles-times/ 20].
[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93484111/the-san-francisco-examiner/ "The Nine Lives of Jack London"]. The San Francisco Examiner. November 6, 1977.
[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93481488/the-los-angeles-times/ "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. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93482102/the-los-angeles-times/ 3], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93482171/the-los-angeles-times/ 25].
[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93481607/the-los-angeles-times/ "Mysterious Case of the Gardner-Chandler Friendship"]. The Los Angeles Times. January 4, 1981.
[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93442948/the-los-angeles-times/ "When Jack London Answered the Call of the Orange Blossoms"]. The Los Angeles Times. March 30, 1981. Sec. Reviews, pg. 3.

=Poetry=

"[https://www.mediafire.com/view/t1fztd1w5w820ia/ Losses for Review]" (1970)Lachtman, Howard (Winter 1970). Western Humanities Review. p. 30.
[https://www.mediafire.com/view/us7fjpjlm9hp354/ "Three Poems: Fat City, The River Merchant to His Wife: A Letter, News from Thermopylae"] (1972)Lachtman, Howard (Winter 1972). Poet Lore. pp. 344–345.
"[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93428514/the-kansas-city-star/ Elegy for William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)]" (1972)Miner, Virginia Scott (February 6, 1972). "Kansas City's 10-Year Poetry Explosion". The Kansas City Star. p. 154, 157.
"[https://soundingsmag.net/2021/11/15/handiwork/ Handiwork]" (2021)SoundingsMag. November 15, 2021.
"[https://soundingsmag.net/2021/12/02/sentry/ Sentry]" (2021)SoundingsMag. December 2, 2021.
"[https://soundingsmag.net/2023/04/13/one-of-the-lucky-ones/ One of the Lucky Ones]" (2023)SoundingsMag. April 13, 2023.

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External links

[https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AHOWARD+LACHTMAN&qt=hot_author Howard Lachtman] at WorldCat
[https://soundingsmag.net/author/howard/ Howard Lachtman] at SoundingsMag.net

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Category:University of the Pacific (United States) faculty

Category:Writers from San Francisco