Full name: Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

Author: James L. Haley Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465004782 9780465025039 0465004784 046502503X

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. Similar books: Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson Jack London by Alex Kershaw Simone de Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Susan Hertog Soldier by Karen DeYoung Savage Art by Robert Polito The World Is What It Is by Patrick French A Lot to Ask by Hazel Holt The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Simenon by Pierre Assouline Anais by Noel Riley Fitch Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett Cheever by Blake Bailey The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Mobituaries by Mo Rocca