Jack London (1876—1916) is one of America’s best-known writers. He became famous as a writer when his Alaskan stories appeared. Jack London spent a year in Alaska in the Far North and when he came back, he wrote his first wonderful stories. They were full of the poetry and mystery of the Great North. Jack London drew powerful pictures of man’s battle with Nature. He showed the world of the long Arctic night in which men fought with men and with hunger and cold. He wrote about faithful, strong and courageous people who could overcome all hardships and win in the battle for life. Brown Wolf is one of Jack London’s stories of the North.