Jack London Accomplishments

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How many famous stories have you read in your lifetime? One of the famous authors that comes to my mind is, Jack London. Jack London was born in the year 1876, on January 12th, he had written many stories. One of his most famous stories was from when he was at age 30 were called “Call of the Wild” published in 1903 and “The Sea Wolf” published in 1904 and many other literature and journalistic accomplishments. Strikingly handsome, full of laughter, restless and courageous, and always eager for adventure, Jack London was one of the most romantic figures at that time. Jack London had written many books between 1900 and 1916, he completed more than 50 books, some examples are “Call of the Wild”, “The Sea Wolf”, “White Fang” and many more, which were translated in over 70 different languages. He had once overseen the construction of his own custom ship, “The Snark”. When married at one point, Jack and his wife Charmian London, wanted to build their dream house and it began to take place in 1911, when a well known San-Francisco Architect, Albert Farr, created the sketches and drawings for Wolf House. The grand house is still standing as it had been for the last thousand years. Between 1908 and 1913 he had written and published more books, those new titles for his books were, “Burning …show more content…

The result of the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion with a pile of oil soaked rags which had been left by some workers, Jack had planned to rebuild the house, but never got the chance, the remains still stand after Jack died in 1916. Before Jack had died, he had signed up to be a war correspondent in Mexico, covering so that the American navy could get in undetected, but sadly Jack had died due to him suffering from a variety of ailments and a kidney condition, but Jack was never forgotten and his work still lives on to this very