Jack London

John Griffith London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American writer, journalist, and social activist. He was one of the first American writers to achieve international fame and earn a substantial fortune from writing. He was a pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines. He was also a pioneer in the science fiction genre that would eventually be named after him.

London was a member of San Francisco's radical literary group "The Crowd" and a strong defender of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set during the Klondike Gold Rush, are among his best-known works, as are the short pieces "To Build a Fire," "An Odyssey of the North," and "Love of Life".

Famous Novels: The Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906), Martin Eden (1909),...