Jack London

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born

January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California, The United States

died

November 22, 1916

gender

male

website

http://www.jacklondons.net/index.html

genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

influences

Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rudya ...more

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Jack London was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of early financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school.

London draws heavily on his life experiences in his writing. He spent time in the Klondike during the Gold Rush and at various times was an oyster pirate, a seaman, a sealer, and a hobo. His first work was published in 1898. From there he went on to write such American classics as Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf, and White Fang.

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Books by Jack London

Average rating: 3.76 · 133,506 ratings · 5,064 reviews · 465 distinct works

	The Call of the Wild 3.66 avg rating — 65,190 ratings — published 1903 — 122 editions	My rating:
	White Fang 3.76 avg rating — 30,689 ratings — published 1905 — 360 editions	My rating:
	The Call of the Wild/White Fang 3.97 avg rating — 12,842 ratings — published 1963 — 74 editions	My rating:
	The Sea Wolf 3.90 avg rating — 4,711 ratings — published 1904 — 170 editions	My rating:
	The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories 3.81 avg rating — 4,675 ratings — published 1906 — 34 editions	My rating:
	Martin Eden by Jack London, Andrew Sinclair (Introduction) 4.23 avg rating — 2,301 ratings — published 1909 — 100 editions	My rating:
	To Build A Fire 3.78 avg rating — 2,082 ratings — published 1908 — 24 editions	My rating:
	To Build a Fire and Other Stories 3.98 avg rating — 1,550 ratings — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Iron Heel by Jack London, Matt Soar (Narrator), LibriVox 3.80 avg rating — 1,084 ratings — published 1907 — 109 editions	My rating:
	John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs by Jack London, John Sutherland (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 1913 — 77 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Jack London

“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
― Jack London

tags: club , inspiration

595 people liked it

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

tags: inspiration , on-writing , writing

540 people liked it

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
― Jack London

tags: charity , dogs , sharing

369 people liked it

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Which books would you like to read for June's category 2?

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and Last Wish by Betty Rollin

25 votes, 56.8%

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston and Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin

13 votes, 29.5%

Ada BlackJack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven and The Call of the Wild by Jack London

6 votes, 13.6%

44 total votes

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