Jack London's biography and his photos

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English 12
Unit 9

Who Is Jack London?
Jack London (John Griffith) (1876-1916)
Jack London
Name at birth was John Griffith Chaney. He is the son of William Chaney and Flora . His mother married John London . So his name is Jack London.

Jack London was born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876. Raised in poverty, he started working part-time at seven .

London`s great love was in agriculture
He was very fond of sport, and delight in boxing, fencing, swimming, riding, yachting, and even kite-flying
Jack and his first wife
London`s first marriage (1900) was to Bess Maddern, with whom he had two daughters, Joan and Bess
Joan, Bess and Bessie (Maddern) London
Becky was born on October 20, 1902
And then the break up of London`s marriage was imminent. He simply couldn`t endure it any longer. They were divorced.
Charmian was born Nov. 27, 1871 in Wilmington, California. Died 1955
In 1905 he married his "Mate Woman" -Charmian Kittredge
She became the person for many of his female characters and who avidly joined him on his many travel ventures. He encouraged her own writing career, and she wrote three books
They lived happily until he died.
Jack London - died
Jack London died on November 22, 1916, in Santa Rosa , California, a possible suicide because of despair dream. He used an overdose of morphine and drowned himself in the sea.
Although he was only 40 years old he had already written 59 books.
She wrote she didn’t believe that his father killed himself.
Becky London died at 2:00 P.M. on Thursday March 26, 1992 at the River Park Care Center in Sacramento.
Jack London’s life
At 14 he quit school and became a sailor because he loved adventure very much He later drew upon these early adventures in books such as The Cruise of The Dazzler (1902) and the Sea-Wolf (1904)
Jack left school, he then worked at a wide range of jobs
Farm boy at age of seven
Jack London
Led A Busy – Active Life

At age 10 sold newspapers on the street
Worked on an ice wagon
Worked in a bowling alley (bãi chơi ki)
Worked in a cannery (nhà máy đồ hộp)
At fifteen bought The Razzle-Dazzle
became an oyster pirate
Became a member of the Fish Patrol
Spent 7 months at sea on a
three-masted sealer (tàu săn chó biển có 3 cột buồm)
Worked in a jute mill (nhà máy đay)
Shoveled coal for Oakland electric railway power plant
Worked in a laundry



Worked as a roustabout (người khuân vác ở bến tàu)
Tramped across country


Thrown in prison 30 days hard labor at Niagara Falls .

Attended Oakland High School while working as a janitor (người trông nom nhà cửa)
Became known as Oakland`s "Boy Socialist" at nineteen
Attended University of California at Berkeley
Sailed on Umatilla to the Klondike gold rush

Renown author, social crusader (người tham gia một cuộc vận động)
, journalist, world traveler and correspondent at thirty-one

Prizewinning stockbreeder – scientific farmer at thirty-five (người làm nghề chăn nuôi)

Self-made millionaire by the time of his death at forty
Some photographs of
Jack London
At his ranch
Jack London . . . The Rancher
There is a poem of Jack London :
“I ride over my beautiful ranch. Between my legs is a beautiful horse.
The air is wine. The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain, wisps of sea fog are stealing.
The afternoon sun smolders in the drowsy sky.
I have everything to make me glad I am alive.”
Jack London . . .
The Gold Prospector

Besides the writer and the sailor Jack London was the gold Prospector. On July25,1897 Jack departed from San Francisco on the SS Umatilla with his older brother – Captain Shepard .