John Griffith Chaney
pen name: Jack London
born San Francisco, California: 12 January 1876
died Glen Ellen, California: 22 November 1916
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, a writer of short stories and poetry, playwright, essayist, war correspondent and activist. He wrote much of his fiction in the genres that we would now know as fantasy and science fiction, and as such he was an innovator and pioneer, becoming one of the first American authors to be internationally recognised.
London was a member of a radical literary group ‘The Crowd’ who were passionate advocates of animal welfare, workers' rights and socialism. He wrote works dealing with these topics, including the dystopian novel The Iron Heel (1908), and several non-fiction exposés.
The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel (1912), originally published in The London Magazine. The Star Rover (1915) is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life in a straitjacket, by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, and involves both mysticism and reincarnation.
However, he is best remembered for The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906), and for the short stories To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, and Love of Life. He is also known for his stories of the Klondike Gold Rush and of the South Pacific.
Many of London's shorter works can be found reprinted in The Science Fiction of Jack London (1975) edited by Richard Gid Powers.
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Jack London
Wikipedia page: Jack London - Wikipedia
pen name: Jack London
born San Francisco, California: 12 January 1876
died Glen Ellen, California: 22 November 1916
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, a writer of short stories and poetry, playwright, essayist, war correspondent and activist. He wrote much of his fiction in the genres that we would now know as fantasy and science fiction, and as such he was an innovator and pioneer, becoming one of the first American authors to be internationally recognised.
London was a member of a radical literary group ‘The Crowd’ who were passionate advocates of animal welfare, workers' rights and socialism. He wrote works dealing with these topics, including the dystopian novel The Iron Heel (1908), and several non-fiction exposés.
The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel (1912), originally published in The London Magazine. The Star Rover (1915) is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life in a straitjacket, by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, and involves both mysticism and reincarnation.
However, he is best remembered for The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906), and for the short stories To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, and Love of Life. He is also known for his stories of the Klondike Gold Rush and of the South Pacific.
Many of London's shorter works can be found reprinted in The Science Fiction of Jack London (1975) edited by Richard Gid Powers.
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Jack London
Wikipedia page: Jack London - Wikipedia
