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Jack London (born January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died November 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, California) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works—among them The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906)—depict elemental struggles for survival.
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John Griffith Chaney [1] [A] (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, [2] [3] [4] [5] was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. [6]
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- Who Was Jack London?
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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.
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 life as a writer essentially began in 1893. That year he had weathered a harrowing sealing voyage, one in which a typhoon had nearly taken out London and his crew. The 17-year-old adventurer had made it home and regaled his mother with his tales of what had happened to him. When she saw an announcement in one of the local papers for a writing c...
London found fame and some fortune at the age of 27 with his novel The Call of the Wild(1903), which told the story of a dog that finds its place in the world as a sled dog in the Yukon. The success did little to soften London's hard-driving lifestyle. A prolific writer, he published more than 50 books over the last 16 years of his life. The titles...
In 1900 London married Bess Maddern. The couple had two daughters together, Joan and Bess. By some accounts Bess and London's relationship was constructed less around love and more around the idea that they could have strong, healthy children together. It's not surprising, then, that their marriage lasted just a few years. In 1905, following his di...
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Jack London, probablemente nacido como John Griffith Chaney (San Francisco, 12 de enero de 1876-Glen Ellen, 22 de noviembre de 1916), [1] [2] [3] fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de Colmillo Blanco, La llamada de lo salvaje [4] y otras novelas y cuentos.
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Jack London (John Griffith Chaney; San Francisco, 1876 - Glen Ellen, 1916) Novelista y cuentista estadounidense de obra muy popular en la que figuran clásicos como La llamada de la selva (1903), que llevó a su culminación la aventura romántica y la narración realista de historias en las que el ser humano se enfrenta dramáticamente a su ...
31 de ene. de 2018 · John Griffith Chaney, better known by his pseudonym Jack London, was born on January 12, 1876. He was an American author who wrote fiction and nonfiction books, short stories, poems, plays, and essays. He was a very prolific writer and achieved worldwide literary success prior to his death on November 22, 1916.
25 de feb. de 2020 · Historia. La vida de Jack London fue tan salvaje como sus libros. Fue un nómada sin blanca que, tras haber trabajado de marinero, pirata y buscador de oro, se convirtió en una estrella literaria hasta que los excesos de la aventura le pasaron factura. Por Simon Ingram. Publicado 25 feb 2020, 11:21 CET. Jack London, California, 1905.
