Jack London

Author profile

born

January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California, The United States

died

November 22, 1916

gender

male

website

http://www.jacklondons.net/index.html

genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

influences

Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rudya ...more

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Jack London was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of early financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school.

London draws heavily on his life experiences in his writing. He spent time in the Klondike during the Gold Rush and at various times was an oyster pirate, a seaman, a sealer, and a hobo. His first work was published in 1898. From there he went on to write such American classics as Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf, and White Fang.

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Books by Jack London

Average rating: 3.76 · 131,192 ratings · 5,003 reviews · 415 distinct works

	The Call of the Wild 3.65 avg rating — 64,001 ratings — published 1903 — 102 editions	My rating:
	White Fang 3.76 avg rating — 30,222 ratings — published 1905 — 352 editions	My rating:
	The Call of the Wild/White Fang 3.97 avg rating — 12,495 ratings — published 1963 — 74 editions	My rating:
	The Sea Wolf 3.90 avg rating — 4,647 ratings — published 1904 — 167 editions	My rating:
	The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories 3.81 avg rating — 4,623 ratings — published 1906 — 34 editions	My rating:
	Martin Eden by Jack London, Andrew Sinclair (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 2,260 ratings — published 1909 — 97 editions	My rating:
	To Build A Fire 3.78 avg rating — 2,013 ratings — published 1908 — 24 editions	My rating:
	To Build a Fire and Other Stories 3.98 avg rating — 1,540 ratings — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Iron Heel by Jack London, Matt Soar (Narrator), LibriVox 3.80 avg rating — 1,069 ratings — published 1907 — 104 editions	My rating:
	John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs by Jack London, John Sutherland (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 512 ratings — published 1913 — 77 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Jack London

“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
― Jack London

tags: club , inspiration

595 people liked it

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

tags: inspiration , on-writing , writing

534 people liked it

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
― Jack London

tags: charity , dogs , sharing

367 people liked it

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What frequently challenged or banned children's or young adult book should we read in September?

(Choices chosen from book club suggestions by random number generator.)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

24 votes 23.8%

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

22 votes 21.8%

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff

13 votes 12.9%

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

12 votes 11.9%

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

11 votes 10.9%

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

8 votes 7.9%

Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block

4 votes 4.0%

Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky

3 votes 3.0%

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

2 votes 2.0%

Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

2 votes 2.0%

101 total votes

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