{"bio": "John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 \u2013 November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.\r\n\r\nHis 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\".\r\n\r\nLondon 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 expos\u00e9 *The People of the Abyss*, *The War of the Classes*, and *Before Adam*.\r\n\r\n**Source**: [Jack London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London) on Wikipedia.", "source_records": ["amazon:1973137445", "amazon:9871784155", "amazon:0359535860", "amazon:2010002237", "amazon:2012093094", "amazon:1528712242", "bwb:9798737207847", "bwb:9781521169766", "amazon:167334951X", "amazon:960208426X", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-11-15", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-03-17", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-03-10", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-11-19", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-08-06", "bwb:9781014631190", "amazon:152338610X", "bwb:9798748848626", "amazon:9753203233", "amazon:9750518330", "amazon:9500531186", "bwb:9798519597999", "bwb:9781645983330", "amazon:0451519949", "bwb:9798528778006", "bwb:9798785721180", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2024-06-13:P9-DWY-428", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2024-09-05:W9-CLC-866", "bwb:9781533188601", "bwb:9781522858621", "ia:bwb_P9-ATW-269", "ia:cruiseofdazzler0000jack_o6q4", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-02-24", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-02-15", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-11-27", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-06-04", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-12-08", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-04-01", "bwb:9798478123222", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2024-01-catchup:W6-AEL-503", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2024-02-26:P9-DQL-168", "bwb:9788184568264", "bwb:9798442109894", "bwb:9798450739045", "bwb:9798525476189", "bwb:9798507429073", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-08-01", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-07-09", "amazon:8817130575", "amazon:1546495061"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "death_date": "22 November 1916", "title": "(mei)", "birth_date": "12 January 1876", "name": "Jack London", "photos": [14567113, 14304856, 14303772, 6594460], "key": "/authors/OL44633A", "personal_name": "Jack London", "alternate_names": ["John Griffith London", "John Griffith Chaney", "Lundun Jieke", "(mei) Jie, ke, lun dun", "Jack George London", "Ke. lundun Jie", "Ndon Lo", "Jie ke lun dun", "Jie ke \u00b7 lun dun", "\u0414\u0436\u0435\u043a \u041b\u043e\u043d\u0434\u043e\u043d", "LONDON Jack -"], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "46764200", "goodreads": "1240", "isni": "0000000121309371", "project_gutenberg": "120", "librarything": "londonjack", "amazon": "B000APWLIO", "storygraph": "2175c8b5-2be8-4c17-ae25-2a083abd2c73", "librivox": "143", "wikidata": "Q45765", "bookbrainz": "b318a0de-425d-4004-ad36-6f932e52976b", "gnd": "118574183", "lc_naf": "n78086415", "musicbrainz": "c5342c3d-ad4d-48c8-be68-b1fa111ffbc8", "imdb": "nm0518711"}, "latest_revision": 46, "revision": 46, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-09-17T15:32:17.376377"}}