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Jack London

Profession
Writing
Born
January 12, 1876 · San Francisco - California - USA
Died
November 22, 1916

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)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. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both 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". 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, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

Known for

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs poster
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Film · 2018 · ★ 7.1
The Call of the Wild poster
The Call of the Wild
Film · 2020 · ★ 7.5
Martin Eden poster
Martin Eden
Film · 2019 · ★ 7.0
White Fang poster
White Fang
Film · 1991 · ★ 6.7
White Fang poster
White Fang
Film · 2018 · ★ 7.4
Emperor of the North poster
Emperor of the North
Film · 1973 · ★ 6.9
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf poster
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
Film · 1994 · ★ 6.9
The Minions of Midas poster
The Minions of Midas
Series · 2020 · ★ 6.8
The Assassination Bureau poster
The Assassination Bureau
Film · 1969 · ★ 6.7
The Sea Wolf poster
The Sea Wolf
Film · 1941 · ★ 7.2
White Fang poster
White Fang
Film · 1973 · ★ 6.4
The Call of the Wild poster
The Call of the Wild
Film · 1972 · ★ 6.1

Filmography