By Jonah Raskin “I would rather burn than rot,” he wrote. And burn he did for most of his life, which began in San Francisco ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...