Jack London was born and raised in the Bay area and was working full-time by the time he was 13 years old.
He borrowed money to enroll in classes at the University of California, Berkeley in 1896, but dropped out after a year and headed to the Yukon for a short lived career as a prospector.
Upon his return, London's literary career began in earnest, and until his death in 1916, he wrote short stories, novels, essays, poetry, journalism, and memoirs.
The Clinch is a collection of four London works--two novellas and two short stories--on the topic, characters, and context of pugilism in California in the early 20th Century.
Included in this anthology are The Game (1905), A Piece of Steak (1909), The Mexican (1911), and The Abysmal Brute (1913).
The Clinch also includes an original introduction by noted scholar and collector J.
Lawrence Mitchell (Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University).
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