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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.
The American writer Jack London (1876-1916) packed much into his forty years on this planet: he famously became the first author to become a millionaire from his writing, writing some fifty books in just sixteen years.
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 controversial...
Aug 29, 2012 · John Griffith Chaney, later Jack London (b. 1876–d. 1916), was born into a turbulent bohemian world in San Francisco, the child of Flora Wellman and, she believed, her common-law husband, William Henry Chaney, an itinerant astrologer who deserted her.
Oct 21, 2013 · The life of Jack London. By Caleb Crain. October 21, 2013. London’s tales of nature and survival made new kinds of cruelty available to fiction. Photograph by Bettmann / Corbis. Jack London...
Feb 20, 2020 · Jack London: The reckless, alcoholic adventurer who wrote The Call of the Wild. As a new adaptation of London’s literary classic is released, Martin Chilton remembers the rags-to-riches success...
John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist, and social 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.
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