The Night-Born (Esprios Classics)

Jack London (1876-1916) was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library mainly just by reading books. In 1898 he began struggling seriously to break into print a struggle memorably described in his novel Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900 he made $2500 in writing the equivalent of about $75000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902) The Call of the Wild (1903) The Sea Wolf (1904) The Game (1905) White Fang (1906) The Road (1907) Before Adam (1907) Adventure (1911) and The Scarlet Plague (1912).