Jack London

Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876 and grew up in Oakland, California, in a working family. He left school at fourteen and worked in a cannery, as an oyster pirate on San Francisco Bay, as a sailor on a sealing ship and as a laborer, and he traveled across the country as a hobo and was jailed for vagrancy. Educating himself at the Oakland public library, he briefly attended the University of California. In 1897 he joined the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon in Canada; he found no gold and came back ill with scurvy, but he gathered material for his stories. The Call of the Wild (1903), about Buck, a dog stolen from California and sold as a sled dog in the north, made him one of the most famous writers in the world. White Fang (1906) tells the reverse story of a wild wolf-dog who becomes tame. He also wrote The Sea-Wolf, Martin Eden and many stories, including To Build a Fire. He died at his ranch near Glen Ellen, California, in 1916.

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