Who is Jack London

Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916)Fogel, Daniel Mark. "London, Jack". World Book Online Reference Center. 2008. Jan 12. 2008 Birth and death dates as given in Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRCJoan London (1939) p. 12, birth date[http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0112.html "Jack London Dies Suddenly On Ranch; Novelist is Found Unconscious from Uremia, and Expires after Eleven Hours. Wrote His Life of Toil— His Experience as Sailor Reflected In His Fiction— Call of the Wild Gave Him His Fame." The New York Times, story datelined Santa Rosa, Cal., Nov. 22; appeared November 24, 1916, p. 13. States he died "at 7:45 o'clock tonight," and says he was "born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876."] was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing.(1910) "Specialty of Short-story Writing", The Writer, XXII, January-December 1910, p. 9: "There are eight American writers who can get $1000 for a short story—Robert W. Chambers, Richard Harding Davis, Jack London, O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, John Fox, Jr., Owen Wister, and Mrs. Burnett." $1,000 in 1910 dollars is roughly equivalent to $20,000 in 2005.