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Jack London

Born

in San Francisco, California, The United States

January 12, 1876

Died

November 22, 1916

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Adventure, Classics

Influences

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Haeckel, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Darwin, Ru ...more

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John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and Wh ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 1,077,131 ratings · 49,487 reviews · 8,187 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of the Wild 3.92 avg rating — 480,484 ratings — published 1903 — 7508 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Fang 4.03 avg rating — 209,971 ratings — published 1906 — 6052 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of the Wild / White Fang 4.12 avg rating — 78,603 ratings — published 1903 — 367 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Martin Eden 4.48 avg rating — 57,187 ratings — published 1909 — 1233 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea Wolf 4.06 avg rating — 34,142 ratings — published 1904 — 3764 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Build a Fire 3.99 avg rating — 27,451 ratings — published 1902 — 186 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories by Jack London, Earle G. Labor (Editor), Robert C. Leitz III (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 22,809 ratings — published 1903 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scarlet Plague 3.75 avg rating — 15,007 ratings — published 1912 — 1775 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iron Heel by Jack London, Matt Soar (Narrator) 3.78 avg rating — 12,847 ratings — published 1908 — 1320 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Star Rover 4.17 avg rating — 11,325 ratings — published 1914 — 1533 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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