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Heroic Jack London, writer as celebrity

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19980222
Author:JONATHAN YARDLEY

Jack London A Life. By Alex Kershaw. St. Martin's. $25.95. That the life of Jack London continues to attract attention more than three-quarters of a century after his premature death comes as no surprise, because he lived one hell of a life.

It was, as Alex Kershaw writes, London - not Ernest Hemingway - "who first personified the writer as man of action, who truly lived out what he wrote," and it was from London's example that the romantic American myth of the writer-adventurer was constructed. Like Hemingway, London is more important, and perhaps more interesting, for his persona than ...

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