Jack London - An American Life - A New Look at A Great Author - by London Scholar Earle Labor

In Jack London: An American Life, noted Jack London scholar and Wilson Professor of American Literature at Centenary College of Louisiana, Earle Labor Ph.D. explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth.

I'm putting this at the top of my fall reading for 2013, once it publishes on October 1st. Here is an author who has dedicated much of his life to returning London to his rightful place in the American pantheon, up there as one of the country's greatest writers of all time. 

The fact that we are so close to the physical legacy of Jack London here in Sonoma County, that we can actually touch it, step foot on his Beauty Ranch land, a continually thriving State Park (thanks to its troops of innovative non-profit devotees), makes the prospect of a new book all the more compelling. 

What a spectacular cover image for this new book. Every Sonoma County reader needs a copy of this. 

To learn more about the author and the background to his being respected amongst the nation's top literary circles as the 'true blue Dean' of Jack London studies, click here for an illuminating interview with him at The World of Jack London.