Facts about Jack London
No theorist or intellectual socialist, Jack London's socialism came from the heart and his life experience.
Jack London's autobiographical book of "alcoholic memoirs," John Barleycorn, was published in 1913.
Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney, was deserted by his father, William Henry Chaney.
Jack London's 1904 essay, "The Yellow Peril", is replete with the views which were common at the time: "The Korean is the perfect type of inefficiency—of utter worthlessness.
Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books.
Captions to pictures in a photo album, reproduced in part in Joan London's memoir, Jack London and His Daughters, published posthumously, show Jack London's unmistakable happiness and pride in his children.
Jack London explained that both writers had based their stories on the same newspaper account.
Many of Jack London's short stories are notable for their empathetic portrayal of Mexicans (The Mexican), Asian (The Chinago), and Hawaiian (Koolau the Leper) characters.
The Road (1907) is a series of tales and reminiscences of Jack London's hobo days.
Jack London's literary legacy is largely to be found in his short stories.
Jack London published an earlier and radically different version in 1902, and a comparison of the two provides a dramatic illustration of the growth of his literary ability.
A short diatribe on "The Scab" is often quoted within the U.S. labor movement and frequently attributed to Jack London.
During the marriage, Jack London continued his friendship with Anna Strunsky, co-authoring The Kempton-Wace Letters, an epistolary novel contrasting two philosophies of love.
Jack London married Bess Maddern on April 7, 1900, the same day The Son of the Wolf was published.
Martin Eden is a novel about a struggling young writer with some resemblance to Jack London.
When The Overland Monthly offered him only $5 for it—and was slow paying—Jack London came close to abandoning his writing career.
During the 1930s, the enigmatic novelist B. Traven, best known in the U. S. as the author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, was hailed as "the German Jack London."
On July 24, 1903, Jack London told Bessie he was leaving and moved out; during 1904 Jack and Bess negotiated the terms of a divorce, and the decree was granted on November 11, 1904.
Jack London's ashes are buried, together with those of his second wife Charmian (who died in 1955), in Jack London State Historic Park, in Glen Ellen, California.
The ranch is now a National Historic Landmark and is protected in Jack London State Historic Park.
Jack London insisted that he had clipped a reprint of the article which had appeared in an American newspaper, and believed it to be a genuine speech delivered by the genuine Bishop of London.
Stasz notes that in his memoirs Chaney refers to Jack London's mother Flora Wellman, as having been his "wife" and also cites an advertisement in which Flora calls herself "Florence Wellman Chaney."
Nevertheless, as Dale L. Walker commented: Jack London was an uncomfortable novelist, that form too long for his natural impatience and the quickness of his mind.
Almost every commentator on Traven mentions in passing a fanciful speculation that Traven actually was Jack London, who presumably would have had to have faked his own death.
Biographer Clarice Stasz and others believe that Jack London's father was astrologer William Chaney.
A surprising number of Jack London's stories would today be classified as science fiction.
Anton LaVey's Church of Satan claims that "Ragnar Redbeard," pseudonymous author of the 1896 book (first published in 1890) Might is Right; or The Survival of the Fittest, was Jack London.
During the marriage, Jack London continued his friendship with Anna Strunsky, co-authoring The Kempton-Wace Letters, an epistolary novel contrasting two philosophies of love.
Jack London's response was to acknowledge having used it as a source; he claimed to have written a letter to Young thanking him.