Jack London

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia John Griffith Jack London born John Griffith ChaneyJanuary 12 1876 November 22 1916was an American author journalist and social activist He was a pioneer in the thenburgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang both set in the Klondike Gold Rush as well as the short stories To Build a Fire An Odyssey of the North and Love of Life He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf London was a passionate advocate of unionization socialism and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel his nonfiction exposé The People of the Abyss and The War of the Classes