In his new biography, “Jack London: An American Life,” Earle Labor — curator of the Jack London Museum and Research Center in Shreveport, La. — wheels capably through the writer's transformations, ...

James L. Haley, author of "Wolf: The Lives of Jack London," gets to the nub of the enduring London riddle in the subtitle of his gripping narrative about the best-selling American author, who was born ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a ...

“Jack London: An American Life” by Earle Labor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 461 pages, $30) At the height of his fame in the early 1900s, Jack London was earning $10,000 a month from a variety of ...

I love so many things about Earle Labor's biography of Jack London — from Labor's devotion to a fine author to the effort put into the biography (more than 22 years from the time he signed the ...

Who was Jack London? A daring adventurer, devoted father, loving husband and literary genius, according to his fans. A crude racist, imperialist and literary hack, his critics contend. These two ...

Biography of the colorful American writer who had been an oyster pirate, a seal hunter, a mill worker, a hobo, and a political activist before becoming a popular ...

The United States has a startling ability to take its most angry, edgy radicals and turn them into cuddly eunuchs. The process begins the moment they die. Mark Twain is remembered as a quipster ...