Jack London
- Birth Date:
- 12.01.1876
- Death date:
- 22.11.1916
- Length of life:
- 40
- Days since birth:
- 54394
- Years since birth:
- 148
- Days since death:
- 39469
- Years since death:
- 108
- Person's maiden name:
- John Griffith Chaney
- Extra names:
- John Griffith "Jack" London; Džeks Londons; Джэк Лондон
- Categories:
- Journalist, Writer
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,[1] January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)[2][3][4][5] was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.[6] He is best remembered as the author of White Fang and Call of the Wild, set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life".[citation needed] He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.
London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss.
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