White Fang | Author Biography
Jack London was born January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. His mother, Flora Wellman, was not married. It is generally believed that an astrologer named William Chaney was London’s father. The year Jack was born, his mother married a widower named John London, who adopted Jack and moved the family to nearby Oakland.
Shunning formal education, London worked from a young age, first in a cannery and then as an oysterman in the San Francisco Bay. It was during his first sea voyage, in 1893, that London began writing. The following year, he traveled across the United...
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