Jack London
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Jack London was a man of adventure, a man of action and only he could have truly conceived such a dynamic and challenging belief as this. And only he, with his great physical strength, his strong intellect, and his high spirit, could have successfully lived up to it. He died when he was only forty, but he accomplished more in this short lifetime than most men could in several lifetimes.
"Born in San Francisco in 1876 Jack London grew up in a world witnessing the settlement of the last frontier. Gone forever were the proud days of the pioneer.
The memory of Jack London's early life was etched and scarred by the bitterness of poverty. His family was continually on the move to find subsistence. At the age of ten the boy was on the street selling newspapers to supplement the family's low income. For fourteen years until his first writing success at twenty-four life was one vicious, downward repeated cycle of toil and escape. He became a "work beast" laboring in a cannery, a jute mill, a laundry, and shoveling coal in a power station...