Thoughts about Jack London

The Tyee has published my review of James L. Haley's Wolf: The Lives of Jack London, under the title Children of the Wolf. Excerpt:

"Why, man," said Cassius of Julius Caesar, "he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus; and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonourable graves." 

Every ambitious male writer in North America in the last century has felt that way about Jack London, and felt himself at best a pathetic imitation of him. If London had been born in 1976, not 1876, he would bestride our world as he did in the decade before World War I.