![]() Jack's Country Store, Ocean Park, Washington. Contrary to popular opinion, we do not have everything. Visit our store for a complete line of hardware, groceries. Moments from the Life and Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (Read the article on one page). Jack London's mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Log in with either your Library Card Number or EZ Login. Library Card Number or EZ Username PIN or EZ Password. At the annual PlatAfrica Awards Jack Friedman Jewellers went Platinum. The competition, now in its 12th year, provides an exceptional opportunity to students and. Jack Nicholson: The Rolling Stone Interview. As he approaches 50, the actor opens up about his latest role in 'Heartburn,' the state of the film industry and how he. ![]() ![]() Jack London - Wikipedia. John Griffith . A pioneer in the then- burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as . He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel. The Iron Heel, his non- fiction expos. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In San Francisco, Flora worked as a music teacher and spiritualist, claiming to channel the spirit of a Sauk chief, Black Hawk. Whether Wellman and Chaney were legally married is unknown. Most San Francisco civil records were destroyed by the extensive fires that followed the 1. Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London's mother Flora Wellman as having been his . 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Late in 1. 87. 6, 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. The family moved around the San Francisco Bay Area before settling in Oakland, where London completed public grade school. In 1. 89. 7, when he was 2. 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. He wrote to William Chaney, then living in Chicago. Chaney responded that he could not be London's father because he was impotent; he casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men and averred that she had slandered him when she said he insisted on an abortion. Chaney concluded by saying that he was more to be pitied than London. London was devastated by his father's letter; in the months following, he quit school at Berkeley and went to the Klondike during the gold rush boom. Early life. London at the age of nine with his dog Rollo, 1. London was born near Third and Brannan Streets in San Francisco. The house burned down in the fire after the 1. San Francisco earthquake; the California Historical Society placed a plaque at the site in 1. Although the family was working class, it was not as impoverished as London's later accounts claimed. London was largely self- educated. He credited this as the seed of his literary success. Seeking a way out, he borrowed money from his foster mother Virginia Prentiss, bought the sloop. Razzle- Dazzle from an oyster pirate named French Frank, and became an oyster pirate. In his memoir, John Barleycorn, he claims also to have stolen French Frank's mistress Mamie. London hired on as a member of the California Fish Patrol. In 1. 89. 3, he signed on to the sealingschooner. Sophie Sutherland, bound for the coast of Japan. When he returned, the country was in the grip of the panic of '9. Oakland was swept by labor unrest. After grueling jobs in a jute mill and a street- railway power plant, London joined Kelly's Army and began his career as a tramp. In 1. 89. 4, he spent 3. Erie County Penitentiary at Buffalo, New York. In The Road, he wrote: Man- handling was merely one of the very minor unprintable horrors of the Erie County Pen. I say 'unprintable'; and in justice I must also say undescribable. They were unthinkable to me until I saw them, and I was no spring chicken in the ways of the world and the awful abysses of human degradation. It would take a deep plummet to reach bottom in the Erie County Pen, and I do but skim lightly and facetiously the surface of things as I there saw them. After many experiences as a hobo and a sailor, he returned to Oakland and attended Oakland High School. He contributed a number of articles to the high school's magazine, The Aegis. His first published work was . At 1. 7, he confessed to the bar's owner, John Heinold, his desire to attend university and pursue a career as a writer. Heinold lent London tuition money to attend college. London desperately wanted to attend the University of California, Berkeley. In 1. 89. 6, after a summer of intense studying to pass certification exams, he was admitted. Financial circumstances forced him to leave in 1. No evidence suggests that London wrote for student publications while studying at Berkeley. In his autobiographical novel, John Barleycorn, London mentioned the pub's likeness seventeen times. Heinold's was the place where London met Alexander Mc. Lean, a captain known for his cruelty at sea. This was the setting for some of his first successful stories. London's time in the harsh Klondike, however, was detrimental to his health. Like so many other men who were malnourished in the goldfields, London developed scurvy. His gums became swollen, leading to the loss of his four front teeth. A constant gnawing pain affected his hip and leg muscles, and his face was stricken with marks that always reminded him of the struggles he faced in the Klondike. Father William Judge, . His struggles there inspired London's short story, . The brothers' father, Judge Hiram Bond, was a wealthy mining investor. The Bonds, especially Hiram, were active Republicans. Marshall Bond's diary mentions friendly sparring with London on political issues as a camp pastime. He concluded that his only hope of escaping the work . He saw his writing as a business, his ticket out of poverty, and, he hoped, a means of beating the wealthy at their own game. On returning to California in 1. London began working to get published, a struggle described in his novel, Martin Eden (serialized in 1. His first published story since high school was . This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public audience and a strong market for short fiction. London told some of his critics that man's actions are the main cause of the behavior of their animals, and he would show this in another story, The Call of the Wild. Macmillan's promotional campaign propelled it to swift success. In 1. 90. 2, Sterling helped London find a home closer to his own in nearby Piedmont. In his letters London addressed Sterling as . London was later to depict Sterling as Russ Brissenden in his autobiographical novel Martin Eden (1. Mark Hall in The Valley of the Moon (1. He referred to his books as . Bess had been part of his circle of friends for a number of years. She was related to stage actresses Minnie Maddern Fiske and Emily Stevens. Jack had made it clear to Bessie that he did not love her, but that he liked her enough to make a successful marriage. In the novel, his fictional character contrasted two women he had known. Both children were born in Piedmont, California. Here London wrote one of his most celebrated works, The Call of the Wild. While London had pride in his children, the marriage was strained. Kingman says that by 1. When I tell her morality is only evidence of low blood pressure, she hates me. She'd sell me and the children out for her damned purity. Every time I come back after being away from home for a night she won't let me be in the same room with her if she can help it. During 1. 90. 4, London and Bess negotiated the terms of a divorce, and the decree was granted on November 1. War correspondent (1. London accepted an assignment of the San Francisco Examiner to cover the Russo- Japanese War in early 1. Yokohama on January 2. He was arrested by Japanese authorities in Shimonoseki, but released through the intervention of American ambassador Lloyd Griscom. After travelling to Korea, he was again arrested by Japanese authorizes for straying too close to the border with Manchuria without official permission, and was sent back to Seoul. Released again, London was permitted to travel with the Imperial Japanese Army to the border, and to observe the Battle of the Yalu. London asked William Randolph Hearst, the owner of the San Francisco Examiner, to be allowed to transfer to the Imperial Russian Army, where he felt that restrictions on his reporting and his movements would be less severe. However, before this could be arranged, he was arrested for a third time in four months, this time for assaulting his Japanese assistants, whom he accused of stealing the fodder for his horse. Released through the personal intervention of President Theodore Roosevelt, London departed the front in June 1. London was elected to honorary membership in the Bohemian Club and took part in many activities. Other noted members of the Bohemian Club during this time included Ambrose Bierce, Gelett Burgess, Allan Dunn, John Muir, Frank Norris. It was described as too difficult to set to music. London published The Acorn Planter in 1. Second marriage. Jack and Charmian London (c. Waikiki. After divorcing Maddern, London married Charmian Kittredge in 1. London was introduced to Kittredge by his Mac. Millan publisher, George Platt Brett, Sr., while Kittredge served as Brett's secretary. Biographer Russ Kingman called Charmian . The Bond brothers were working in Nevada as mining engineers. London had contrasted the concepts of the . His pet name for Bess had been . Every biographer alludes to Charmian's uninhibited sexuality. London's had comedy relief in it and a sort of easy- going romance. They attempted to have children; one child died at birth, and another pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. Writing, always a commercial enterprise with London, now became even more a means to an end: . I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. He conceived of a system of ranching that today would be praised for its ecological wisdom. He hoped to adapt the wisdom of Asian sustainable agriculture to the United States.
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