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**A revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved works** Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed bestselling books __The Call of the__ __Wild__, __White Fang__, and __The Sea-Wolf__. The bare outlines of his story suggest a classic rags-to-riches tale, but London the man was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage, but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest paid writer in the United States, he was nevertheless forced to work under constant pressure for money. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice and a lover of humanity, he was also subject to spells of bitter invective, especially as his health declined. Branded by shortsighted critics as little more than a hack who produced a couple of memorable dog stories, he left behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. I

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Author

Earle Labor

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374710989

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Memoir, History

Rating

4.04 / 5 (223 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13