Jack London Research Paper

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Jack London (Jack London, pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney ) is known to be a novelist, short-story writer and journalist, but during his life he was far more than that. He was born on the 12th of January in 1876 in San Francisco, California, United States and died on November 22 1916 in Glen Ellen, California at the age of 40. Even though his life was not long his experiences were many, making subject for his numerous writings which have passed the test of time, and continue to live on. His is the son of Flora Wellman and William Chaney a ‘major figure in the development of American astrology’ who left them before Jack London was born. Because Flora was ill, he was raised by Virginia Prentiss, an ex-slave, who was life a mother figure

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