White Fang | About the Author
Jack London was born in San Francisco, California, on January 12, 1876. Raised in poverty, he educated himself through reading; he especially enjoyed the stories of Washington Irving and Rudyard Kipling. London spent his teen-age years sailing to Japan aboard a sealing schooner, tramping across the country as a hobo, and working at various odd jobs. London later drew upon these early adventures for such books as The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902) and The Sea-Wolf (1904).
When he was twenty, London enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley. He had just...
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