Jack London fought his way up from a life of hard, factory labor in Oakland, California, to become the highest paid, most popular author of his time. His writings questioned the meaning of life and death and captured the essence of the natural struggle to survive. Drawing on his own experiences in Alaska, at sea, and as a hobo, he wove his thoughts into adventurous stories, becoming a prolific author in expressing his own struggle in life. The trials and tribulations Jack London faced instilled in his work a sense of truth and realism that appealed to millions of people around the world.
Jack London was born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876. He was the only child of a short-tempered spiritualist, Flora Wellman, and William Chaney, a man of many trades. Chaney never finished what he started, trying carpentry, sailing, editing, lecturing, and teaching. He had an interest in astrology and after traveling the country attending astrological meetings; he opened a small astrology parlor. Chaney abandoned Flora nine months after Jack's birth. Flora Wellman then married John London, a widower and father of two, in September of 1876. John London gave his name to Flora's illegitimate child, and it was not until his college day
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s that Jack learned the truth about his birth. The cruise was planned to last seven years, but was cut short after being forced to stop in Sydney, Australia. After only one semester he dropped out of college. Jack introduced terracing and green water mulching. Jack owned forty acres of wine grapes, which were formerly part of the Kohler-Frohling Winery. The house took two years to construct of the native red wood trees, locally quarried boulders, volcanic rock, and blue slate. Then, in 1893 he signed on with the Sophia Sutherland, a seal hunting ship, and set sail for Asia. That year he married his math tutor, Bess Maddern, who later gave birth to his two daughters, Joan and Bess. Before, he had been an individualist without knowing it (Stone 227). Finding it to be "not alive enough (Wilson)" and a "passionless pursuit of passionless intelligence (Wilson). Among his later works were The Iron Heel a novel about a Fascist society, and John Barleycorn, a semi-autobiographical novel about an alcoholic. "
By 1900, Jack London's stories were being published in national magazines and receiving excellent reviews. " His famous novels, The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf, both sold astoundingly well, earning more money that he had ever seen. In 1904, Jack London was commissioned by the Hearst newspapers as a war correspondent and sent to Asia to cover the Russo-Japanese War.
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