Jack london an american life

Excellent biography of an extremely interesting man. In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth―at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American.

The first authorized biography of a great American novelist. Jack London: An American Life, published at the tail end of 2013, is the culmination of Labor's career and likely the best overall biography of London ever written. Unlike so many previous London biographers, Labor doesn't have an axe to grind or a sexy thesis to push, like "Jack London committed suicide," (see Irving Stone's Sailor on.

In a new biography by the London scholar Earle Labor, the “bigger thing” has a harder time coming out: Perhaps it doesn't exist. Labor, Earle. Jack London: An American Life, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2013 (461pp. $30) At the height of his fame in the early 1900’s, Jack London was earning ten thousand dollars a month from a variety of sources including royalties on his novels and non-fiction works, magazine serials and articles, journalism assignments and speaking engagements.

Item 4 of 10 A revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved works 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—an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns.

Jack London: An American Life Hardcover - In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth—at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American.

Item 7 of 10 In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth--at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American.

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Jack London: An American Life, published at the tail end of 2013, is the culmination of Labor's career and likely the best overall biography of London ever written.

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In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth-at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died.

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In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth—at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died.