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Jack London
John Griffith London, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.
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culture · American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916) · writer · journalist · novelist · war correspondent · essayist · autobiographer · screenwriter · science fiction writer · children's writer · travel writer · also Jack London, John Griffith Chaney, John Griffith "Jack" London, John Griffith Chaney London, John Griffith "Jack London" Chaney, London
Born 12 January 1876 · Died 22 November 1916 · Q45765
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2026· 9 entries
PropertyShark: Jack London Square - 40 Harrison - Channel House Retail
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Infobae: Jack London y la pregunta que nunca abandonó: hasta dónde aguanta la civilización
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Fine Books Magazine: Jack London's Real Life 'Buck' and Kahlil Gibran Signed Sketch: The Week in Rare Books
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The Times of India: Jack London built a 26-room California mansion with nine fireplaces and a manuscript vault; it burned jus
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“I believe the future belongs to eugenics, and will be determined by the practice of eugenics.”
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“quite different in manner of treatment, [but] patently the same in foundation and motive.”
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The Guardian: London City Lionesses’ Mapi León: ‘It is a club created for women. It is beautiful and exciting’
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Sonoma Valley Sun: Jack London 150th Birthday Gala September 19
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2025· 1 entry
CounterPunch: Jack London, Celebrity Socialist at 150
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2024· 3 entries
The Real Deal: Jack London’s former home in Sonoma County sells for $4.75M
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patheos: Jack London 3: The Sea Wolf
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patheos: Jack London 1: The Call of the Wild
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2021· 3 entries
TV Guide: Jack London - Full Cast & Crew
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The Guardian: Martin Eden review – a stylish Italian take on Jack London’s novel
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The Guardian: Martin Eden review – Jack London’s thrilling tale of hollow success
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: White Fang review – Jack London's wild tale inspires teen rebel's quest
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2016· 9 entries
The Guardian: Jack London's vision of workers' future looks a lot like our present
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The Guardian: Don't obsess over the science of Jack London's dogs – enjoy them as characters
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The Guardian: Reading group: let's tackle three Jack London stories this November
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The Guardian: Reading group: Which Jack London book should we read in November?
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The Guardian: Jack London documents his world – in pictures
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Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Jack London, the Sonoma County storyteller
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,911 times.
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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“Citation choisie pour le 8 novembre 2016.”
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2013· 1 entry
“Confession" in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, (2013)”
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2012· 3 entries
SFGate: Jack London State Historic Park
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,291 times.
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,267 times.
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2011· 3 entries
“Da lì in avanti tra i due fu guerra. Spitz, il cane leader e il capo riconosciuto della muta, sentiva la minaccia che questo strano cane delle Terre del Sud rappresentava per la propria supremazia. Per lui Buck era davvero strano [...]. (cap. III; 2011, p. 85)”
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“Una volta per tutte aveva capito che davanti a un uomo con un bastone non aveva possibilità. Aveva imparato la lezione e non la dimenticò per tutta la vita. (cap. I; 2011, p. 62)”
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“Thornton si inginocchiò di fianco a Buck. Gli prese la testa tra le mani e gli mise contro la guancia. Non lo sballottò scherzosamente come al solito; non gli mormorò dolci imprecazioni d'amore; ma nell'orecchio gli sussurrò: "Come quando mi vuoi bene, Buck. Come quando mi vuoi bene". Questo sussurrò. Buck guaì per trattenere l'entusiasmo. (cap. VI; 2011, p. 137)”
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2009· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 4 décembre 2009.”
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1996· 1 entry
After the City of Whitehorse, Yukon, renamed a street in honor of London, protests over London's alleged racism forced the city to change the name of "Jack London Boulevard" back to "Two-mile Hill"
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1990· 1 entry
“(tłum. Józef Mondschein, Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, Warszawa 1990)”
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1962· 3 entries
“A Piece of Steak" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6”
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“The Wit of Porportuk" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6”
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“An Odyssey of the North" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6”
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1956· 3 entries
“Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives”
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“Also included in Jack London’s Tales of Adventure, ed. Irving Shepard, Introduction, p. vii (1956)”
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“Tales of Adventure" - Página vii; de Jack London - Publicado por Hanover House, 1956 - 531 páginas”
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1955· 1 entry
Was also cremated and then buried with her husband in the same spot that her husband chose
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1918· 1 entry
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the American Humane Education Society teamed up to create the Jack London Club, which sought to inform the public about cruelty to circus animals and
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1916· 24 entries
Attended only by close friends, relatives, and workers of the property
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Died 1916-11-22.
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“W obliczu faktów, że człowiek współczesny żyje gorzej niż jaskiniowiec, a jego zdolność wytwórcza jest tysiąc razy większa niż jaskiniowca, jeden tylko jedyny wniosek jest możliwy: klasa kapitalistyczna źle rządzi, (…) [rządzi] karygodnie i samolubnie.”
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Resigned from the Glen Ellen chapter of the Socialist Party
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“Zamiast niszczyć wspaniałą maszynerię, która produkuje i wydajnie, i tanio, nauczmy się nad nią panować. Wykorzystajmy i wydajność, i taniość, a maszynerią sami pokierujmy. Usuńmy obecnych właścicieli i sami w ich miejsce stańmy się właścicielami tych wspaniałych urządzeń. Oto, panowie, czym jest socjalizm.”
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“Ból nie jest jeszcze śmiercią – przemknęło przez gasnącą świadomość człowieka. Śmierć nie boli. To straszliwe dławienie to życie, męka życia, ostatni cios jaki zadać zdoła.”
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“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog. (ang.)”
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“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
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“Life’s not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
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“Tęsknota za włóczęgą po nocy, po dniuJak pies się na łańcuchu przyzwyczajeń miota,I oto znów się budzi z zimowego snuZew zwierzęcy i dziki, co wabi za wrota.”
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“Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. (ang.)”
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“The Bulletin, San Francisco, California, December 2, 1916, part 2, p. 1.”
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“El hombre se distingue de los demás animales en ser el único que maltrata a su hembra.”
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“Di tutti gli sport, l'unico che ami veramente è la boxe. Certo, è uno sport che a poco a poco va scomparendo. Ma mi auguro che, nei giorni che mi restano da vivere, ci sia sempre da qualche parte un'arena cui poter andare.”
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“A verdadeira função do homem é viver, não existir. Eu não gastarei meus dias tentando prolongá-los. Eu usarei meu tempo.”
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“El objetivo del hombre es vivir, no existir». [The proper function of man is to live, not to exist].”
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“Di tutto, questo è rimasto: | l'aver vissuto e l'aver lottato. | Questo sarà il guadagno del gioco | anche se sarà perso l'oro della posta.”
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“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
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“La vida devora la vida, prevaleciendo la más fuerte y la más egoísta.”
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“Dimenticati di te stesso e il mondo ti ricorderà.”
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“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”
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“La vida no siempre es cuestión de tener buenas cartas, sino a veces de jugar bien una mala mano». [Life is not (always a matter) of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well].”
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“Forget you! And then the world will remember you.”
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“A vida é como um fermento, uma levedura que se move por um minuto, uma hora, um ano, um século, um milênio, mas que por fim terá paralisados os movimentos. Para manter-se em movimento, o grande come o pequeno. Para manter-se forte, o forte come o fraco. O que tem sorte prolonga o seu movimento por mais tempo - eis tudo.”
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1913· 2 entries
“Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t.”
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And 1914, a number of newspapers printed the first three sentences with varying terms used instead of "scab", such as
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1910· 1 entry
“To Build a Fire" published as a collection of short stories in the book Lost Face (1910)”
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1908· 1 entry
London pleaded for a white candidate to come forward to defeat Johnson
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1907· 1 entry
Where they were guests of the Bond brothers, London's Dawson City landlords
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1906· 2 entries
The New York World published "deadly parallel" columns showing eighteen passages from London's short story "Love of Life" side by side with similar passages from a nonfiction article by Augustus Biddle and J
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London published in Collier's magazine his eye-witness report of the San Francisco earthquake
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1905· 3 entries
“What Life Means to Me (1905), in Revolution and Other Essays (Macmillan, 1909)”
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London purchased a 1,000 acres (4
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“Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard (11 August 1905)”
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1904· 2 entries
London went with his close friend, the poet George Sterling, to "Summer High Jinks" at the Bohemian Grove
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“O Lobo-do-Mar (The Sea-Wolf), livro de 1904”
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1903· 5 entries
London told Bessie he was leaving and moved out
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“s actions are the main cause of the behavior of their animals, and he would show this famously in another story, The Call of the Wild. In early 1903, London sold The Call of the Wild to The Saturday Evening Post for $750 and the book rights to Macmillan. Macmillan”
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“Opis: tytuł powieści z 1903 roku.”
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“Getting into Print", first published in 1903 in The Editor magazine”
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“Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard (21 August 1903)”
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1902· 2 entries
London offered a second, more severe take on the man's predicament in The Century Magazine in 1908
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Sterling helped London find a home closer to his own in nearby Piedmont
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1901· 4 entries
And their second, Bessie "Becky" (also reported as Bess), on October 20, 1902
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Titled "The Bishop of London and Public Morality"
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Left the Socialist Labor Party and joined the new Socialist Party of America
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(receiving 245 votes) and 1905 (improving to 981 votes), toured the country lecturing on socialism in 1906, and published two collections of essays about socialism: War of the Classes (1905) and Revolution, and other Ess
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1900· 3 entries
The same day The Son of the Wolf was published
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By her aunt Netta Eames, who was an editor at Overland Monthly magazine in San Francisco
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Made $2,500 in writing, about $97,000 in today's currency
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1898· 1 entry
London began working to get published, a struggle described in his novel Martin Eden (serialized in 1908, published in 1909)
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1897· 4 entries
London (age 21) and his sister's husband Captain Shepard sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush
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But Jack and Bessie continued their friendship, which included taking photos and developing the film together
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In 1897, when he was 21 and a student at the University of California, Berkeley, London searched for and read the newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and the name of his biological father.
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When he was 21 and a student at the University of California, Berkeley, London searched for and read the newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and the name of his biological father
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1896· 1 entry
After a summer of intense studying to pass certification exams, he was admitted
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1894· 1 entry
Spent 30 days for vagrancy in the Erie County Penitentiary at Buffalo, New York
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1893· 2 entries
Revolted and resisted capture from forces of the Provisional Government of Hawaii in the Kalalau Valley
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Signed on to the sealing schooner Sophie Sutherland, bound for the coast of Japan
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1889· 1 entry
London began working 12 to 18 hours a day at Hickmott's Cannery
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1886· 1 entry
Went to the Oakland Public Library and found a sympathetic librarian, Ina Coolbrith, who encouraged his learning
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1885· 1 entry
London found and read Ouida's long Victorian novel Signa
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1876· 2 entries
Born 1876-01-12.
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Flora Wellman married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran, and brought her baby John, later known as Jack, to live with the newly married couple
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