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Doctorow traces Jack London’s life as the foundation for The Call of the Wild, from childhood labor and limited schooling to maritime experience and years of hardship. It describes how London’s reading—poetry, science, political theory, and popular fiction—shaped his craft, while personal temperament and philosophical interests fueled his ambition. Doctorow highlights influences such as Kipling, socialism, Nietzsche, and Spencer, showing a creative tension between brotherhood ideals and racist survival-of-the-fittest beliefs.","JACK LONDON  \nTHE CALL OF THE WILD  \nWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY  \nE. L. Doctorow  \nDonald Pizer, editor  \nLIBRARY OF AMERICA PAPERBACK CLASSICS  \nIntroduction copyright © 1990 by E. L. Doctorow.  \nChronology, Note on the Text, Notes, and Historical and Geographical Note copyright ©1982 by Literary Classics ofthe United States, New York, NY. All rights reserved. Maps reprinted from The Klondike Fever, by Pierre  \nBerton.  \nReprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf.  \nTHE LIBRARY OF AMERICA, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to publishing, and keeping in print, authoritative editions of America’s best and most significant writing. Each year the Library adds new volumes to its collection of essential works by America’s foremost novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and statesmen.  \nVisit our website at www.[loa.org](loa.org) to find out more about The Library of America, including our signature black-jacketed series, Paperback Classics, and American Poets Project; and to sign up to receive our occasional newsletter with exclusive interviews with Library of America authors and editors, and our popular Story of the Week e-mails.  \nPrint ISBN: 978–1–59853–058–2 eISBN: 978–1–59853–525–9  \nContents  \nIntroduction by E. L. Doctorow  \nTHE CALL OF THE WILD  \nChronology  \nNote on the Text  \nHistorical and Geographical Note  \nNotes  \nINTRODUCTION  \nby E. L. Doctorow  \nJ ack London was born in 1876 in San Francisco and grew up in the Bay  \narea in a time of economic depression. Like children everywhere, he worked at menial jobs to help support his family. He had no appreciable schooling after the twelfth grade. He became an expert small-boat sailor and used his skills to loot the commercial oyster beds of the South Bay. Then he joined the bay police, the Fish Patrol, to catch miscreants like himself. He applied himself to manly drinking in sailors’ saloons, and at age seventeen he shipped out as an able-bodied seaman on the sealer Sophia Sutherland and saw Japan and the Bonin Islands. When he returned he worked in a cannery and then a jute mill, and then he shoveled coal ten hours a day in an Oakland power plant. He left home again, joining the western contingent of Coxey’s Army, a march of the unemployed upon  \nWashington, but quitting by the time he got to Missouri and wandering on his own as far as Buffalo, where he served a thirty-day jail sentence for vagrancy.  \nAll these experiences would be capital he would draw on for his books. Quite early he had fixed upon the profession of writer as a way out, or up. He felt that deadening labor and dereliction were equally unscalable walls of the pit in which most men were condemned to live. At home or on the road, he always had a book in his hand. He read poetry; he read in the natural sciences ; he read political theory and philosophy. And he read the popular monthlies of the day, studying the fiction to see how it was put together, to learn its techniques and the ideas in which it traded. From his  \nearliest days he conformed his ambitions to the ideals of consumer literature. Poor, self-educated, and a Californian, he was as far from the sophistications ofEast Coast literary life as an aspiring writer could be.  \nHe was a handsome fellow, sturdily built and burning with vitality. He loved to argue philosophy, politics, anything at all; he was fresh and vigorous, aware of his strength, and defiantly self-confident.  \nHe was encouraged in his literary ambitions by his strange little bitter spiritualist of a mother, Flora Wellman, who otherwise showed him no affection. At age twenty he learned that the soft-spoken man he called father, a failed storekeeper named John London, was in fact his stepfather, and that he was the son of William Chaney, an itinerant astrologer and allaround hustler who’d abandoned Flora Wellman when she became pregnant.  \nThe young man wrote to his father, and his father wrote back denying the relationship. 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