Novelist Jack London

Jack London

Living place: San Francisco

Birthday: 12-1-1876

Global rank: #18163

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Who is Novelist Jack London?
American adventure author who is known for novels like The Call of the Wild and White Fang, as well as for short stories like To Build a Fire and Parlay's The Pearls. He is also a well-known worker's rights activist; His non-fiction work, The People of the Abyss, exposed terrible working conditions and the lives of the poor in London.
A mountain in British Columbia and a lake in Russia are named in his honor.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He grew up in the San Francisco area, where his passion for literature was encouraged by the local library and then California Poet Laureate, Ina Coolbrith. In his young adulthood, London began his day long working at a local cannery, but was able to borrow money to buy his sailboat, the Razzle Dazzle-, and become an oyster pirate.

Family life info

He is the biological son of California astrologer, William Chaney, and he was raised by his mother, Flora Wellman, and by his stepfather, John London. Jack London was married twice: to Elizabeth Maddern and, after the divorce, to Charmian Kittredge

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Jack London?
He is the author of White Fang, which was made into a 1991 film starring Ethan Hawke.

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When was Novelist Jack London born?
Jack London was born in 12-1-1876, death year is , at the age of 148.
Where is Novelist Jack London's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Jack London was born in San Francisco, California- United States. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Jack London's global rank is 18163 and whose rank is 46 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1876 and 12-1

Birthday Jack London (12-1) in history

  • Day 12-1 year 1773: The first public museum in the United States was established in Charleston, South Carolina
  • Day 12-1 year 1896: H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.
  • Day 12-1 year 1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
  • Day 12-1 year 1932: Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
  • Day 12-1 year 1964: One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
  • Day 12-1 year 1991: A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.
  • Day 12-1 year 1998: Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
  • Day 12-1 year 2010: Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.
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