To Build a Fire

Jack London was a man who lived as fiercely as the characters in his stories. Born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, his rise from poverty to international literary fame is a tale of grit, adventure, and boundless ambition. Orphaned by circumstance and raised by a strong-willed mother, London quit school at 14 to labor in factories, scavenge oysters, and roam the seas as a sailor. Yet, beneat...