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Jack London
(1876-1916)
Who Was Jack London?
After working in the Klondike, Jack London returned home and began publishing stories. His novels, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Martin Eden, placed London among the most popular American authors of his time.
London, who was also a journalist and an outspoken socialist, died in 1916.
Early Years
John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. Jack, as he came to call himself as a boy, was the son of Flora Wellman, an unwed mother, and William Chaney, an attorney, journalist and pioneering leader in the new field of American astrology.
His father was never part of his life, and his mother ended up marrying John London, a Civil War veteran, who moved his new family around the Bay Area before settling in Oakland.
London grew up working-class.
He carved out his own hardscrabble life as a teen. He rode trains, pirated oysters, shoveled coal, worked