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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 (born January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died November 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, California) was an 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.
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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...
Apr 2, 2014 · Jack London was a 19th century American author and journalist, best known for the adventure novels 'White Fang' and 'The Call of the Wild.'
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Dec 14, 2016 · An extremist, radical and searcher, Jack London was never destined to grow old. On November 22, 1916, London, author of The Call of the Wild, died at age 40. His short life was...
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- Baptism of adventure. The man who would become Jack London was born in San Francisco as John Griffith Chaney, in 1876—the son of a music teacher-cum-spiritualist mother Flora Wellman, and a traveling astrologer father named William Chaney.
- The lure of the gold. In August 1896 a group of miners struck gold in Rabbit Creek, near Dawson City in the Klondike region of Canada’s Yukon Territory.
- ‘Ahead of his time’ Jack London was married to teacher Bess Maddern in 1900, and the couple had two daughters. In 1904, London embarked on a sortie as a war correspondent, filing reports from the Japan-Russian conflict for the San Francisco Examiner.
- The call of the ocean. With a steady income and worldwide acclaim, London could afford to indulge two of his steering interests: the land, and the sea. Following the collapse of his first marriage in 1904, London had married Charmian Kittredge, and in 1906 commissioned a custom-designed 55ft ketch called the Snark—named after Lewis Carroll’s nautically flavoured nonsense poem.
4 days ago · 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.
Feb 25, 2023 · Jack London was an American author and adventurer who became one of the most popular and highly regarded writers of the early 20th century. He was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco ...
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