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London’s Childhood
•Born in 1876 in San Francisco, California
•Raised by mother, Flora Wellman, and stepfather, John London
•Childhood marked by poverty & unhappiness
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London at age 8 with dog Rollo
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London as a school boy
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• Became an avid reader at age 10 when an Oakland librarian encouraged him to escape his life of poverty through reading.
• Bought his first sailboat at age 12—loved to sail.
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Youth—Adventure/Responsibility
•Dropped out of school at age 14 & had series of low-paying jobs:
Seaman delivered paperssweatshop worked in canneryfreight train hobo cleaned local saloon
•Loved to listen to stories about the California Gold Rush of 1849
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Forming Ideas/Attitudes
•Experiences that shaped London’s life and attitudes:
-oyster pirate -seal hunter in the North Pacific -1894—arrested & jailed in Niagara Falls for vagrancy -adopted socialistic views
•Educated self by reading in public library
•Attended University of California at Berkeley
•Left school after 1 year to seek his fortune in gold fields
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Adventure• Traveled to Klondike Gold Rush in
1897• Spent one winter at Split-Up Island,
near the Stewart River• Did not find gold; had a wealth of
experiences he would later use to write stories and books
• Returned home to support himself and his family by publishing his writing
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Gold Gold DISCOVERED DISCOVERED
in the in the YukonYukon
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Jack London outfitted to travel to the gold fields of the Klondike Gold Rush
Photo actually taken in at Truckee, CA.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London
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Adult Life
• An avid sailor—loved his boat, the Snark
http://www.parks.sonoma.net/JLStory.html
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Aboard the Snark with friends
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•Bess Maddern—London’s first wife
•Becky and Joan London—London’s daughters http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
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Charmian London Jack London’s second wife
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London owned and loved a ranch in Sonoma Valley
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London’s Directions to his London’s Directions to his ranch at Glen Ellenranch at Glen Ellen
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“Next to my wife, the ranch is
the dearest thing in the world
to me.”Jack London
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The Londons at homeThe Londons at home
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“..he was mighty good to us, and there never was a man who came here who went away hungry.”
Ranch workmann
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London—the Author• Began avidly writing in 1897• He commonly spent 15 hours
a day writing• Daily quota of 1000 written
words a day • Became recognized as a
talented & successful writer
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Jack London wrote 50 books and 1,000 articles between 1899 and 1916.
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“The greatest story London ever told was
the story he lived.”
Alfred Kazin Literary critic
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“By 1916, London was the highest-paid writer in the
country and the most widely read American author in the
world.”http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London
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The Londons several weeks prior to his death
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•Jack London died on November 22, 1916 at the age of 40. He had kidney failure.
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TitleTitle: The Call of the WildGenreGenre: Realistic FictionSettingSetting: Late 1800’s,
Klondike gold rush
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The Call of the Wild
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He was paid three cents per word for the story, which he had shortened
by 5,000 words.
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London received a total of $2,750.00
for his work.
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The book has never been out of print during the last one
hundred years.
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“The Call of the Wild is the greatest dog story ever
written…” Carl SandburgCarl Sandburg
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From the time From the time The Call of the The Call of the WildWild caught the imagination of caught the imagination of
the world in 1903, until his the world in 1903, until his death by a stroke and heart death by a stroke and heart
attack in 1916,attack in 1916,
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his 51 books, hundreds of short stories, essays and other
writings had more newspaper coverage than any other writer.
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““I have everything to I have everything to make me glad I am alive. make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams I am filled with dreams
and mysteries.”and mysteries.” Jack London