Written by Jack London shortly before he died, Michael, Brother of Jerry told the harrowing story of a terrier who was kidnapped and trained by threat of force to sing on the vaudeville stage.

London, Jack, Mr. and Mrs., portrait photograph, between 1906 and 1916, Prints & Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection, LC-G3999-0049-A (b&w glass neg.), Library of Congress Jack London ...

Before his sudden death at age 40 in 1916, Jack London lived in perpetual motion ... where he wrote The People of the Abyss, a powerful documentary account of that city's underworld, to Korea ...