| Jack London AKA John Griffith Chaney
Born: 12-Jan-1876 Birthplace: San Francisco, CA Died: 22-Nov-1916 Location of death: Sonoma County, CA Cause of death: Kidney failure Remains: Cremated, Underneath a lava rock, Jack London State Historical Park, Sonoma County, CA
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Call of the Wild Father: John London (stepfather) Mother: Flora Wellman Wife: Elizabeth "Bess" Maddern (m. 7-Apr-1900, div. 18-Nov-1905) Daughter: Joan (b. 1901) Daughter: Bess "Becky" (b. 1902) Wife: Charmian Kittredge (m. 19-Nov-1905, one day after divorce, until his death) Father: William Henry Chaney (astrologer, deserted the family)
High School: Oakland High School, Oakland, CA University: UC Berkeley
Appendectomy 8-Jul-1913 Vagrancy Niagara Falls 1894 Risk Factors: Psoriasis, Alcoholism, Smoking, Gonorrhea, Morphine, Malaria, Appendicitis
Author of books:
The Son of the Wolf (1900, novel) The Call of the Wild (1903, novel) The People of the Abyss (1903, nonfiction) The Sea-Wolf (1904, novel) The War of the Classes (1906, essays) White Fang (1906, novel) The Iron-Heel (1907, novel) The Road (1907, short stories) The Iron Heel (1908) Martin Eden (1909, novel) Burning Daylight (1910, novel) The Cruise of the Snark (1911, travel) John Barleycorn (1913, novel)
Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #2183 (25 cents, issued 11-Jan-1986)
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