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Jack London 王轶群 20121001216 About the author Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning 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. He is best remembered as the author of 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 and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss. He gave his life to create a volume of about 50 works, most famous for Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf and White Fang, Martin Eden and a series of excellent short story Love of Life, “Old Man Alliance, Northern The Odyssey, Ma Puxi the house, Silence of the snow, and so on. Notable Novels The Call of the Wild (1903) 《野性的呼唤》 The Sea-Wolf (1904) 《海狼》 Martin Eden (1909) 《马丁·伊登》 White Fang (1906) 《白牙》 The Iron Heel (1908) 《铁蹄》 Early life London was born near Third and Brannan Streets in San Francisco. Though the family was working class, it was not as impoverished as Londons later accounts. London was essentially self-educated. In 1885 London found and read Ouidas long Victorian novel Signa. He credited this as the seed of his literary success. In 1886 he went to the Oakland Public Library and found a sympathetic librarian, Ina Coolbrith, who encouraged his learning. In 1889, London began working 12 to 18 hours a day at Hickmotts Cannery. In 1893, he signed on to