“On the Trail of Jack London” by Nick Fox

A piece by alum Nick Fox (fiction, ’09) appears at The Museum of Americana:

He was a dropout, a hobo, an oyster poacher. He was an excellent sailor, a less-excellent rancher, a deeply committed socialist, a boxing fanatic, an early ecologist. He was an alcoholic, a voracious reader, a boat builder, a failed gold miner and, in the language of the day, “a bastard.” He was perhaps the greatest adventure writer America has ever produced.

And he was the first writer whose work I fell in love with.

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