About the Author

Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876. As a young man, London was to work on seal hunting ships, in a jute mill and in a power plant before becoming a vagrant and spending 30 days in Erie County Penitentiary. Deciding to complete his education, London earned a place at UC Berkeley, although he was to quit school after only a year and head for the Klondike Gold Rush. Still only 22 when he had his first work published, London's writing career was to span 18 years up to his death in 1916.