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His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen". Family.
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.
In the first wave was a tough, stocky 21-year-old from San Francisco named Jack London. Left, the riverfront in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, December 1897. Though his time in the Yukon...
After trying to make a go of it on the East Coast, he returned to California and briefly enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, before heading north to Canada to seek at least a...
In 1904, London traveled to Yokohama, Japan where he was housed along with other journalists. The government refused to allow the journalists any real access to information or events, something that frustrated London.
The 1,400-acre Jack London State Historic Park lies in the heart of Sonoma Valley wine country, some 60 miles north of San Francisco in Glen Ellen, California. Originally, the land...
Jack London was only 21 years old when he stepped ashore in Alaska in 1897 to find his fortune in gold. He looked boyish and threadbare, as did many who ventured north during a time when America was suffering from an acute economic depression.
