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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.
Died: Nov 22, 1916. 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.
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.
Home. Jack London's Writings. "It is a pity Jack London died young. His work is real; his books have been lived." --Joseph Conrad. London quote on why he writes. Now known around the world, published in several dozen languages, Jack London committed himself to become a writer by late adolescence.
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...
Nov 26, 2016 · ullstein bild/Getty Images. Jack London, who died 100 years ago this week, occupies a space in which few writers can set foot. Although it's not especially unique for writers' lives to be...
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