John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 â€"
November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social
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. He was also an
innovator in the genre that would later become known as science
fiction.His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White
Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories
"To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He
also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of
Parlay", and "The Heathen".London was part of the radical literary
group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of
unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote
several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel
The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of
the Classes, and Before Adam. Jack London Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter