Jack+London

** John Griffith (Jack London) was born to a wealthy unmarried women in **** San Francisco ****, **** California ** ** January 12th, 1876 ****. John’s mother later that year married a Civil War veteran by the name of John London, giving John Griffith the last name **** London ****. As John grew up he adopted the name Jack. Jack had worked many hard laboring jobs as a teenager until he was 19 when he decided to go back to high school. After school he became a factory work. To escape the hard like as a factory worker, Jack had decided to become a writer. In 1897 he spent his entire winter writing his first book //Overland Monthly// which was published in 1899. At this point Jack was a determined and acclimatized writer, and a few years later he became a successful, famous, writer with his book //Call of the Wild....// [|Biography Continued] **
 * Jack London **


 * Stasz, Clarice. “Jack [John Griffith]** **London****.”** **August 19 2001****.** **January 20 2009****. <** **http://london.sonoma.edu/jackbio.html>**