White Fang (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Dutcher, James, Jamie Dutcher, and James Manfull, Wolves at Our Door: The Extraordinary Story of the Couple Who Lived with Wolves, Pocket Star, 2002.

  James Dutcher and his wife, Jamie, spent six years living in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains with a wolf pack. The documentary film they made of their experiences, also entitled Wolves at Our Door, won an Emmy Award. This book details their experiences with the wolves, who lived in a twenty-acre enclosure with the Dutchers.

• Kershaw, Alex, Jack London: A Life, Griffin, 1999.

  This engaging biography covers all aspects of London's life, including his politics and his love of the wilderness and of adventure as well as his writing.

• Lawlor, Mary, Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West, Rutgers University Press, 2000.

  Lawlor discusses the various ways in which Americans have thought of the West throughout their history and examines how the literature of each period both influenced and reflected these ideas. Naturalism is a major focus of the book.

• Pizer, Donald, ed., The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: From Howells to London, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  Pizer discusses realism and naturalism as literary movements and then provides more in-depth analysis of ten representative works, including London's The Call of the Wild.