Contemporary Review, March 1st, 1998
As Trollope said, 'The man of letters is, in truth ever writing his own biography.' This statement is an understatement in relation to Jack London. His short life was intensely lived and informs, even overshadows, the literary production. Given such an eventful life, it would be impossible for a biographer to produce a dull book. From London's illegitimate birth (the product of an unlikely union between a spiritualist mother and a father described as 'an itinerant astrologer'), he led a rough, tough, dramatic existence.
London grew up in poverty, worked in a canning factory at the age of fo...
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