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Jack London: Biography!
Jack london author biography example
Jack London
American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)
For other people named Jack London, see Jack London (disambiguation).
John Griffith Chaney[A] (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London,[2][3] 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.[6] He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.[7]
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal welfare, workers' rights and socialism.[8][9] London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novelThe Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposéThe People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
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