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Jack London was born January 12, 1876. [10] His mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones.
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. 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...
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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Below, we select and introduce ten of London’s greatest books (well, technically nine books and one outstanding short story). 1. White Fang. First published as a serial in Outing magazine in 1906, this is one of Jack London’s best-known books. It was conceived as a kind of companion-piece to his earlier novel The Call of the Wild (of which ...
Dec 14, 2016 · Jack London State Historic Park, home to the rough and tumble troublemaker with a prolific pen. An extremist, radical and searcher, Jack London was never destined to grow old. On November 22, 1916 ...
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Jan 31, 2018 · Updated on January 31, 2018. John Griffith Chaney, better known by his pseudonym Jack London, was born on January 12, 1876. He was an American author who wrote fiction and nonfiction books, short stories, poems, plays, and essays. He was a very prolific writer and achieved worldwide literary success prior to his death on November 22, 1916.
John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, 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 writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as ...
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