Jack London

Jack London was born in 1876 in San Francisco, the son of a spiritualist, Flora Wellman, whom the astrologer William Chaney, probably his father, abandoned; he took his stepfather's name. He worked from childhood, raided the oyster beds of the bay, at seventeen shipped out on a sealer bound for Japan, tramped across the country as a vagabond and served thirty days in prison. Having left to seek gold in the Klondike in 1897, he came back without a fortune and set himself, he said, a thousand words a day. A socialist activist, he became the best-paid writer in the country, lost the house on his ranch in a fire, and died in 1916, at forty.

In the catalogue 2

• NovelThe Call of the WildJack London · 1903Literature
• NovelWhite FangJack London · 1906LiteraturePublic domain