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A Short Biography of Jack London

Author Name:

Jack London

Born As:

John Griffith Chaney

Other Names:

Jack London

Born:

12 Jan 1876

Died:

22 Nov 1916




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Novelist and Socialist                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

A Daughter of the Snows - 1902
The Call of the Wild - 1903
The Kempton-Wace Letters - 1903 - published anonymously, co-authored with Anna Strunsky
The Sea-Wolf - 1904
The Game - 1905
White Fang - 1906
Before Adam - 1907
The Iron Heel - 1908
Martin Eden - 1909
Burning Daylight - 1910
Lost Face - 1910
Adventure - 1911
The Scarlet Plague - 1912
A Son of the Sun - 1912
The Abysmal Brute - 1913
The Valley of the Moon - 1913
The Mutiny of the Elsinore - 1914
The Star Rover - 1915 - published in England as The Jacket
The Little Lady of the Big House - 1916
Jerry of the Islands - 1917
Michael, Brother of Jerry - 1917
Hearts of Three - 1920 - novelization a movie script by Charles Goddard
The Assassination Bureau, Ltd - 1963 - left half-finished, completed by Robert Fish

Short story collections:

Son of the Wolf - 1900
Children of the Frost - 1902
Tales of the Fish Patrol - 1906
South Sea Tales - 1911
The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii - 1912
Smoke Bellew - 1912
The Turtles of Tasman - 1916
On the Makaloa Mat - 1919

Autobiographical memoirs:

The Road at Project Gutenberg - 1907
John Barleycorn - etext at Project Gutenberg - 1913

Nonfiction and essays:

The People of the Abyss - 1903
Revolution, and other Essays - 1910
The Cruise of the Snark - 1911

Short stories:

A Curious Fragment - 1908
A Piece of Steak - 1909
A Relic of the Pliocene - 1901
A Thousand Deaths - 1899
An Odyssey of the North - 1900
All Gold Canyon
Aloha Oe - 1908
Diable—A Dog - 1902, renamed Bâtard in 1904
By The Turtles of Tasman
Even unto Death - 1900
Goliah - 1910
Good-by, Jack - 1909
In a Far Country - 1899
In the Forests of the North - 1902
Keesh, Son of Keesh - 1902
Love of Life - 1905
Moon-Face - 1902
Negore the Coward - 1904
Samuel
South of the Slot - 1909
The Apostate - 1906
The Chinago - 1909
The Death of Ligoun - 1902
The Dream of Debs - 1909
The Dominant Primordial Beast - 1903
The Enemy of All the World - 1908
The God of His Fathers - 1901
The King of Mazy May - 1899
The Law of Life - 1901
The Leopard Man's Story - 1903
The Madness of John Harned
The Man With the Gash - 1900
The Mexican
The Minions of Midas - 1901
The One Thousand Dozen - 1903
The Red One - 1918
The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone - 1899
The Scarlet Plague - 1912
The Seed of McCoy - 1909
The Shadow and the Flash - 1903
The Strength of the Strong - 1911
The Sundog Trail
The Unparalleled Invasion - 1910
The White Silence - 1899
To Build a Fire - 1902, revised 1908
Told in the Drooling Ward
To the Man on Trail
War - 1911
When the World was Young - 1910
Who Believes in Ghosts! - 1895

Plays:

The Acorn Planter: a California Forest Play - 1916.