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Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in…mehr

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Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).
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Jack Griffith London was a novelist, journalist, and social activist as well. By birth, he was an American as his birthplace was San Francisco, California. There is no clarity to the information on whether his folks Flora Wellman and William Henry Chaney were hitched. In any case, after Chaney left Flora, she wedded John London who gave Jack his last name. Likewise, Verdure's subsequent marriages gave Jack two relatives, Eliza and Ida. The family moved a few times before settling in Oakland where Jack finished grade school. Despite residing in a rough climate, battling to endure consistently, London was an aggressive youngster, excited about his future all the time. He was exceptionally partial to perusing and composing. He found a library in Oakland, London dived himself into the world of writing. For a lengthy period, London had been caught up with composing while at the same time he continued with his work. His first story, Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan (1893) was written when he was on the sloop off the shores of Siberia and Japan. London soon started to treat writing seriously and embarked on his journey as a fruitful essayist. London joined the Socialist Labor Party in 1896. His communist perspectives are portrayed in his works like The Iron Heel (1908). London married Bess Maddern on April 7, 1900. The couple had two little girls Joan and Bess. After four years of their marriage, London and Bess separated. He remarried Charmian Kittredge. In 1900, London's first book, 'The Son of the Wolf' was distributed followed by his other works like 'The God of His Fathers' (1901), 'A Daughter of the Snows' (1902), 'The Children of the Frost' (1902), 'The Cruise of the Dazzler' (1902) and 'The People of the Abyss' (1903). Around this time, London met Anna Strunsky, who turned out to be his long-lasting companion and his composing accomplice for 'The Kempton-Wace Letters' (1903). Additional attempts that followed during London's productive composing vocation incorporate The Faith of Men (1904), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905) was trailed by War of the Classes (1905), Tales of the Fish-Patrol (1905), Moon Face and Other Stories (1906), Scorn of Women (1906), Before Adam (1907), Love of Life and Other Stories (1907), and The Road (1907).