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John Griffith Chaney [1] [A] (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, [2] [3] [4] [5] was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from ...
May 29, 2024 · Jack London, American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works—among them The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906)—depict elemental struggles for survival. During the 20th century he was one of the most extensively translated of American authors.
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- Jack London's first book, The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North (1900), was a collection of short stories that he had previously published in...
- Jack London wrote and published steadily, completing some 50 books of fiction and nonfiction in 17 years, and became the highest-paid writer in the...
- The short story "To Build a Fire" (1908) was set in the Klondike and is a masterly depiction of humankind’s inability to overcome nature. It was re...
- The autobiographical novels of Jack London are Martin Eden (1909), The Road (1907), and John Barleycorn (1913).
- The Call of the Wild is often considered to be Jack London's masterpiece and is the most widely read of all his publications. The story follows Buc...
Jack London (Jan 12, 1876 - Nov 22, 1916) was an American author best known for writing The Call of the Wild. Jack London was his pen name, likely born in San Francisco, California as John Griffith Chaney.
Feb 20, 2020 · T o the American public, Jack London was one of the most romantic figures of the early 20th century. To his eldest daughter Joan, though, the famous author of The Sea-Wolf, White Fang and The...
May 22, 2024 · The Call of the Wild, novel by Jack London, published serially by The Saturday Evening Post in 1903 and then as a single-volume book by Macmillan & Co. the same year. It is often considered to be his masterpiece and is the most widely read of all his publications.
Dec 31, 2014 · Jack London, born January 12, 1876, was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then burgeoning 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.
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck.
