Martin Eden

When he died at age forty, Jack London was already an American legend. Beginning as a juvenile delinquent in his native San Francisco, he went on to become a war correspondent, world-traveller, and farmer - not to mention author of over twenty novels including The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Many of London's lesser-known works, including the disturbingly prophetic book The Iron Heel, display pronounced Marxist sympathies.