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, ...

“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 ...

Over 40 short, dazzling years of life, Jack London proved his genius for reinvention. At 14, he was a "beast" in a West Oakland cannery, working 14 hours a day for 10 cents an hour. By 15, he had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...