Call of the wild book author6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And he was also a prolific – and, it must be said, determined – author who, once he broke into the literary market, would write a wide range of works including dystopian fiction (see below), adventure stories ( White Fang and The Call of the Wild, his most enduring books – though the 1904 book The Sea-Wolf is also worth mentioning here), realism ( Martin Eden, about a struggling writer), post-apocalyptic fiction ( The Scarlet Plague), and several volumes of memoirs (the most biographically illuminating of which is John Barleycorn). Jack London’s San Francisco home has a collection of some of the 600 rejections he received before he sold a single story. Born John Griffith Chaney in 1876, Jack London read voraciously as a youth, and amassed a library of some 15,000 volumes which he described as ‘the tools of my trade’. ![]() Fun interesting facts about Jack London, author of White Fang and The Call of the Wildġ. ![]()
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