Jack London1
John (Jack) Griffith London (1876-1916) was born in San Francisco, California. His mother, Flora Wellman, came from a wealthy family. As an infant, Virginia Prentiss, a major mother figure, raised Jack in Jack's childhood, an ex-slave. She was obligated to care for Jack because Jack's mother was ill. In his teenage years, Jack worked very hard jobs - he served on a fish patrol catching poachers; he pirated oysters on the San Francisco Bay; he sailed the Pacific Ocean on a sealing ship; and he joined Kelly's Army of Unemployed Working Men. London also traveled around the country, not returning to high school until the age of 19. During these years Jack was often reading the different writings of various authors. He chose to be a writer to escape the life of a factory worker. He often submitted literary works like jokes, stories
Jack London's best novel, The Sea Wolf, was based on experiences at sea. The journey also gave London material for books he would write on Melanesian and Polynesian cultures. After an affair with Charmain Kitteredge who was five years older, London divorced Bess. From this point many stories diverge. , and poems to publications, usually with little or no success. The other story says he got a kidney disease and died of renal failure. This voyage was a key in breaking the taboo over leprosy. One night he overdosed on morphine (accidental?) and was near death in the morning. Jack co-wrote a book titled "The Kempton-Wace Letters" with Anna Stronsky. By 1914, Jack London's health was failing. Many of Jack's short stories deserve to be called classics, even to this day. In the next couple of years his health only worsened. This provided material and motivation for many of his stories.
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