Fanged

November 27, 2016

If you’re wondering why you should read this new essay on Jack London, consider this sentence: “Born in 1876, the year of Little Bighorn and Custer’s Last Stand, the prolific writer would die in the year John T. Thompson invented the submachine gun.” In Smithsonian MagazineKenneth Brandt explores the brief life of the author.

is a staff writer for The Millions. He lives in New York.