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No Mentor But Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing. (Book Notes).(Review)
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Dale L. Walker & Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds. No Mentor But Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2nd ed., 1999), xxii+243 pp., $17.95 (paper), $49.50 (cloth).
Jack London, as one might guess from his gritty fiction, was not one to mince words in his personal life. In No Mentor But Myself, a second-edition collection of his letters, we hear him telling off President Teddy Roosevelt, warning a wayward publisher that "I am the livest wire you ever got your hands on," and upbraiding an overly boastful admirer: "buck up! Kick in! Get onto yourself! ...
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