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The Lives of Jack London
Basic Books
June 2010
On Sale: May 25, 2010
400 pages
ISBN: 0465004784
EAN: 9780465004782
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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—by turns playing the
role of hobo, sailor, prospector, and oyster pirate. He
spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences
that would inform his acclaimed, best-selling books: The
Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf. London 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 America, he
was nevertheless constantly broke. An irrepressibly
optimistic crusader for social justice, he burned himself
out at forty: sick, angry, and disillusioned, but leaving
behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for
rediscovery. In Wolf, award-winning author James L. Haley
explores the forgotten Jack London—at once a hard-living
globetrotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for
social justice roared until the day he died. Returning
London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Wolf
resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.
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