A Brief Introduction to the Author of The Call of the Wilderness

Date of birth: 1876- 1- 12 (Los Angeles, California, USA)

Constellation: Capricorn

Formerly known as John Griffith London, he is an American realistic writer. He wrote 19 novels, 150 short stories and stories, and 3 plays. His major works include: Son of the Wolf, novella The Call of the Wild, Love for Life, White Teeth, and novels The Sea-Wolf, Iron Feet and Martin Eden.

The rough life experience in his early years provided rich materials for his later creation. His creative thinking is complicated and influenced by Marx, Spencer, Nietzsche and others. In his youth works, he is beating the pulse of challenging capitalist society, and gradually falls into extreme individualism and emptiness after becoming famous.

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Jack London was born on1June, 876+10/October 12 in a bankrupt peasant family in California. When he was a child, he tasted poverty and hardship. At the age of 8, in order to make a living, he had to work as a shepherd boy in a livestock farm. /kloc-after 0/0 years old, he began to work as a newsboy, docker, sailboat sailor and flax factory worker in Oakland near San Francisco.

During this period, Jack London began to read a lot of novels and other books. /kloc-When he was 0/6 years old, he lost his job, had to wander around in the eastern United States and Canada, lived in a slum in a metropolis, and was arrested and imprisoned for "wandering without a job", only to regain his freedom several months later.

Jack London has no chance to study systematically. In order to master cultural knowledge and practice writing, he worked hard against time. He wrote the new words on a piece of paper and inserted them in the mirror seam of the dresser so that he could recite them when shaving and dressing in the morning. He hung a string of words on the clothesline with a pin so that he could see them when he looked up or walked across the room.

He has a piece of paper with lines written on it in every pocket. When he goes to the library or visits abroad, he will read aloud and even meditate while eating or sleeping. He took a notebook with him and wrote down what he saw and heard during his work: descriptions of scenery, sketches of characters, wonderful language, fragments of dialogues, touching stories ... He also made a card index of everything he had read.

Over time, he not only learned culture, but also accumulated a large number of vocabulary, and established a "reference reading room" for storing writing materials, which he never used up until his death.

The work that marks Jack London's realistic tendency is his reportage The Man in the Abyss. This work was written after he visited the British capital London as a newspaper reporter. 1905, Jack London took part in the workers' movement as a socialist party member. During this period, his creation reached its peak, and a large number of works and political papers with the theme of social struggle against capitalism and imperialism appeared. In addition to short stories, there are also novels "The Iron Shoe", "Martin Eden" and essays "War and Revolution between Classes".

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