London, Jack, Mr. and Mrs., portrait photograph ... "Cheer Up." Charmian wrote that after they saw each other a few times, Houdini made a "declaration" that "rather shakes me up." ...

Before his sudden death at age 40 in 1916, Jack London lived in perpetual motion, writing 50 books and traipsing across ... the slums of London, where he wrote The People of the Abyss, a powerful ...