Jack London
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: London was one of the main exponents of American literary naturalism, a popular writer of adventure stories, and a crusading journalist, socialist, and political novelist who pioneered the role of the twentieth century activist writer.
Early Life
Born John Griffith Chaney, Jack London spent his early life around the Oakland, California, docks and the San Francisco waterfront. His family was poor, and life was a grim struggle—facts he later used in autobiographical novels such as Martin Eden (1909), the story of how a young,...
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