Wolf: The Lives of Jack LondonBorn a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876, Jack London spent his youth as a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast; by adulthood he had matured into the iconic American author of such still universally loved books as The Call of the Wild and White Fang. In Wolf, award-winning biographer James L. Haley explores the forgotten Jack London: a hard-living globetrotter bristling with ideas whose passion for social justice roared until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Haley resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
1 The Work Beast | 7 |
2 The Oyster Pirate | 29 |
3 The Seal Hunter | 45 |
4 The Tramp | 61 |
5 The Student | 77 |
6 The Prospector | 97 |
7 the Aspiring Writer | 115 |
11 The Celebrity | 207 |
12 The Sailor | 233 |
13 The Rancher | 261 |
14 The Jade | 287 |
Epilogue | 313 |
Acknowledgments | 317 |
Notes | 319 |
Books by Jack London | 337 |
8 The Muckraker | 135 |
9 The War Correspondent | 157 |
10 The Lover | 183 |
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