Jack London

@Author, Life Achievements and Facts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jack London was a short-story writer hailing from America, who was also a social activist and journalist Alcoholics Socialists American University Of California, Berkeley Activists Media Personalities Journalists Short Story Writers Capricorn Celebrities Jack London is also known as John Griffith Chaney was a prolific writer of the nineteenth century. He did not have a usual childhood like most of the children but he dealt with it and overcame his grief. He could not continue higher studies because of financial problems but this did not restrain him from becoming an author. He had a vivid way of expression and was efficient in putting this in writing. He realized his flair for writing and decided to take it as a profession and began to write regularly. This helped him in gaining financial stability and enabled him to support his family, after his father’s demise. This novelist was adventurous and his voyages and journeys provided him the material of his stories. During his entire career he has penned several stories, novels, poetry, and even autobiographical literary pieces. He even worked as a journalist and covered news on man-made disasters like war and natural calamity as earthquake. These engagements helped him to know the world in a better way and also bestowed him with huge experience. These experiences later helped him in authoring short stories and novels revolving around different themes which continue to amuse the readers till today

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Birthday: January 12, 1876 Died on: November 22, 1916 Nationality: American Famous: Author, Alcoholics, Socialists, University Of California, Berkeley, Activists, Media Personalities, Journalists, Short Story Writers Ideologies: Socialists Spouses: Charmian London, Elizabeth Maddern Known as: John Griffith Chaney, John Griffith Chaney London, John Griffith Information Detail Birthday January 12, 1876 Died on November 22, 1916 Nationality American Famous Author, Alcoholics, Socialists, University Of California, Berkeley, Activists, Media Personalities, Journalists, Short Story Writers Ideologies Socialists Spouses Charmian London, Elizabeth Maddern Known as John Griffith Chaney, John Griffith Chaney London, John Griffith Childrens Bessie London, Joan London Universities University Of California, Berkeley 1897 - University of California Berkeley 1896 - Oakland High School Notable Alumnis University Of California Berkeley Founder / Co-Founder California Writers Club Birth Place San Francisco Gender Male Father William Chaney Mother Flora Wellman Sun Sign Capricorn Born in San Francisco Famous as Author Died at Age 40

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On 7th April 1900, he married Bessie May Maddern and the couple was blessed with two children named Joan and Bessie’. However, the couple separated four years later. Unsplash Personal Life

In 1905, Jack got married for the second time to Charmian Kittredge and the couple went on various voyages. Unsplash Personal Life

This prolific writer breathed his last on 22nd November 1916, in his ranch in California. There are many speculations about his death but the cause of his death is still not determined. Unsplash Personal Life

He was born on 12th January, 1876 at San Francisco, California, and apparently, was an illegitimate child of Flora Wellman and William Chaney. His mother married a person named John London and, probably, after that he took up the surname of his step-father. His family first moved to Bay Area and then shifted to Oakland. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life:

He received his elementary schooling from ‘West End School’ in Alameda, California and in 1887, joined the ‘Oakland Cole Grammar School’ situated in West Oakland, California. However, he dropped out of school after completing eighth grade. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life:

When he was around fourteen years old he got employed at a cannery and soon after, bought a sloop named ‘Razzle Dazzle’, thus beginning his adventurous voyages. Unsplash Career:

In 1892, he joined the ‘California Fish Patrol’ department of the ‘California Natural Resources Agency’ and the following year; he was sent to the coast of Japan on a seal hunting schooner called ‘Sophie Sutherland’. His story ‘Typhoon of the Coast of Japan’ is based on this journey. Unsplash Career:

In 1893, the United States was hit by a severe economic depression. The following year, he became a member of the ‘Kelly Army’ (Coxey Army) and joined the march of the unemployed people led by the Jacob Coxey. He led a life of a vagabond and was even imprisoned for this for a short span, and sent to Erie County, New York. Unsplash Career:

He had amassed a lot of experience during his life as a vagabond and all these experiences formed the basis of his book ‘The Road’. Unsplash Career:

He enrolled at the ‘Oakland High School’ and in 1896, joined the ‘University of California’, Berkeley with a desire to pursue a literary career. However financial constraints forced the aspiring writer to drop out of the institution a year later. Unsplash Career:

This author has written many significant stories and one amongst those is his book entitled ‘The Call of the Wild’ that tells the story of a dog named Buck and narrates all the hardships it faces in its life. It revolves around the canine’s story of how it establishes its identity as a sled dog braving the harsh cold environment. Unsplash Major Works

The story shows the dog’s faithfulness towards its master and once that bond is broken, it follows its call of the wild. London thought of penning a short story but finally ended up writing a book about this dog. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	January 12, 1876
Died on	November 22, 1916
Nationality	American
Famous	Author, Alcoholics, Socialists, University Of California, Berkeley, Activists, Media Personalities, Journalists, Short Story Writers
Ideologies	Socialists
Spouses	Charmian London, Elizabeth Maddern
Known as	John Griffith Chaney, John Griffith Chaney London, John Griffith
Childrens	Bessie London, Joan London
Universities	University Of California, Berkeley 1897 - University of California Berkeley 1896 - Oakland High School
Notable Alumnis	University Of California Berkeley
Founder / Co-Founder	California Writers Club
Birth Place	San Francisco
Gender	Male
Father	William Chaney
Mother	Flora Wellman
Sun Sign	Capricorn
Born in	San Francisco
Famous as	Author
Died at Age	40

Jack London

American

Jan 12, 1876

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San Francisco