Before Adam

Before Adam is a novel about a boy who dreams he lives the life of an early humanoid Australopithecine. The story offers an early view of human evolution and is told through the eyes of the boy's humanoid alter ego, one of the Cave People. Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist, a pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.