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Biography of the colorful American writer who had been an oyster pirate, a seal hunter, a mill worker, a hobo, and a political activist before becoming a popular author at the age of twenty-nine.

A biography of the American novelist and short story writer who sought and wrote about adventure.

The author of "White Fang" and other literary classics details his experiences outside writing as a day laborer, Alaskan gold rusher, seaman, journalist, and drunk, in a work that includes London's drawings and archival photographs.

Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless San Franciscan in 1876, and in his youth was a boundlessly energetic adventurer. His adventures in the American wilderness and underworld informed his fiction, and his writing came to captivate the nation as it defined his era. Within his own short lifetime, London became the most popular and best-selling author of his generation. After a short, breathless life, he passed away at age forty, but he left...

"The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--

Discusses the themes and characters in Jack London's novel, The call of the wild and includes excerpts from the book and background information on the author.

Story of a young man who hopes to strike it rich in the Yukon gold country at the turn of the century and his relationship with the wolf-dog White Fang.