Post on 04-Jul-2015
JACK
LONDON
John Griffith London (1876-1916)
was born in San Francisco of an
unmarried mother of wealthy
background, Flora Wellman. His
father may have been William
Chaney, a journalist, lawyer, and
major figure in the development of
American astrology.
• London's first book was published, The
Son of the Wolf (1900).
• The God of His Fathers (1901)
• A Daughter of the Snows (1902)
• The Road (1907)
• The Call of the Wild (1903)
Jack London's most
successful book, The
Call of the Wild, was
awarded the Newberry
Medal in 1931.
London died November 22, 1916, in a sleepin porch in a cottage on his ranch. He was in extreme pain and taking morphine, and it is possible that a morphine overdose, accidental or deliberate, may have contributed to his death. The biographer Staszwrites, "Following London's death, for a number of reasons, a biographical myth developed in which he has been portrayed as an alcoholic womanizer who committed suicide. Recent scholarship based upon firsthand documents challenges this caricature."[4