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| March 23, 1913 |
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| Jack London (1876 - 1916) |
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Jack London's Cash Flow
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1913, the flamboyant and very American Jack London wrote a letter to six of the most famous writers of the day -- a list which included Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells -- to ask them what rates they were paid for their "stuff." Fifteen years earlier, London had been a beginning writer with a stack of over 400 rejection slips skewered five feet high on a wire in his room. He was now a prolific, best-selling author, but it had been a decade since The Call of the Wild, and "Wolf" had a voracious lifestyle: a custom-built ketch for his round-the-world voyage; a 1400-acre "Beauty Ranch" in the Sonoma hills for the utopian agricultural community he was developing; a nearly-completed mansion, "Wolf House," and a policy of extending hospitality or hand-outs to all; a taste for venture capitalism, and the instincts of 
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