Jack London
Jack London was a jailbird. A hobo. A sailor, seal hunter, pirate, gold-miner, laundered, yachtsman, and coal shoveler. He was a drinker, a brawler, and a heavy smoker. He was a husband (twice) and a father (twice). He was a socialist candidate for mayor of Oakland, California. He was a rancher. A world-traveler. A voracious reader. A loyal correspondent whose collected letters fill three large volumes. A lecturer whose fiery speeches ignited controversy where ever he went. A journalist who covered wars and sporting events and natural catastrophes. He was an author of fifty books dealing with subjects as varied as sailing, boxing, out-of-body experiences, dogs, ranching, and Hawaii. He wrote about gold mining and animal rights, architecture and war, earthquake and fire, alcoholism and leprosy, surfing and socialism. He wrote one novel set in a prehistoric civilization, another set many centuries in the future. He wrote a murder mystery; he wrote a short novel about a devastating disease that wipes
5.Today some of London's ideas seem out of fashion and occasionally offensive. And some of his writing s, for example, he expresses an excessive pride in his Anglo Saxon heritage that makes modern readers feel uncomfortable. Jack London, however, grew up in a country in which slavery had only recently been abolished. A country in which the predominately white population was at war with the Plains Indians. He lived in a time when magazines and newspapers of the day were openly racist. Child 1. Throughout Jack London's boyhood, his stepfather - a friendly, gentleman - failed at a variety of occupations, forcing the little family to move frequently. By the time Jack was five years old, he had lived in nine different houses. out nearly all-human life. He wrote what may be the first "novelization" of a movie. He wrote about survival and love and loneliness, about fairness and unfairness, about right and wrong. He exhumed our past, examined our present, and predicted our future. And at the age of forty he wa
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