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Jan 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.
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...
The iconic American novelist, short story writer, journalist and social activist, Jack London is best known for writing Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang. Jack was born in San Francisco, California on January 12, 1876. It is not known for sure whether his parents Flora Wellman and William Henry Chaney were married.
Oct 21, 2013 · London was born in 1876, into crisis. His mother was a San Francisco seamstress, piano teacher, and medium, who uttered war whoops when possessed by her spirit control, an Indian chief named...
Aug 29, 2012 · Introduction. 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. However, there is also evidence for the possibility that John London, who ...
Home. Biographies of Jack London and His Family. John "Jack" Griffith London. Jack London in a pose writing outside, c. 1916. No definitive or fully reliable biography of Jack London exists to date.
May 21, 2018 · BORN: January 12, 1876 • San Francisco, California. DIED: November 22, 1916 • Glen Ellen, California. Writer. Jack London was a writer whose style was in direct opposition of the popular writing of the Gilded Age.
