Biography of Jack London by Irving Stone

Jack London is one of the greatest American authors of all time. As the author of The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Seawolf, The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, and several other novels and collections of short stories he had become world famous and very wealthy in the early 1900s. He went to Alaska for the gold rush, sailed across the Pacific Ocean several times, experimented with new agricultural techniques on his ranch north of San Francisco, was active in the labor movement, was sympathetic to Socialism, ran with the literary crowd, and was married several times and had several children. Many of his books have been in print for over 100 years. This biography, written by another great American author, Irving Stone, was written shortly after London died so it’s very accurate, entertaining and informative because many people who knew London were available for Irving Stone to interview. If you’re interested in Jack London or enjoys his writing you’ll love this biography because it reads like one of his stories — full of adventure, thrills and romance.

Jack London died in 1916 and this biography was published in 1938

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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JACK LONDON

(copied from Wikipedia)

NOVELS BY JACK LONDON

The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902)
A Daughter of the Snows (1902)
The Call of the Wild (1903)
The Kempton-Wace Letters (1903) (published anonymously, co-authored with Anna Strunsky)
The Sea-Wolf (1904)
The Game (1905)
White Fang (1906)
Before Adam (1907)
The Iron Heel (1908)
Martin Eden (1909)
Burning Daylight (1910)
Adventure (1911)
The Scarlet Plague (1912)
A Son of the Sun (1912)
The Abysmal Brute (1913)
The Valley of the Moon (1913)
The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1914)
The Star Rover (1915) (published in England as The Jacket)
The Little Lady of the Big House (1916)
Jerry of the Islands (1917)
Michael, Brother of Jerry (1917)
Hearts of Three (1920) (novelization of a script by Charles Goddard)
The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (1963) (left half-finished, completed by Robert L. Fish)

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS BY JACK LONDON

Son of the Wolf (1900)
Chris Farrington, Able Seaman (1901)
The God of His Fathers & Other Stories (1901)
Children of the Frost (1902)
The Faith of Men and Other Stories (1904)
Tales of the Fish Patrol (1906)
Moon-Face and Other Stories (1906)
Love of Life and Other Stories (1907)
Lost Face (1910)
South Sea Tales (1911)
When God Laughs and Other Stories (1911)
The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii (1912)
Smoke Bellew (1912)
A Son of the Sun (1912)
The Night Born (1913)
The Strength of the Strong (1914)
The Turtles of Tasman (1916)
The Human Drift (1917)
The Red One (1918)
On the Makaloa Mat (1919)
Dutch Courage and Other Stories (1922)

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS BY JACK LONDON

The Road (1907)
The Cruise of the Snark (1911)
John Barleycorn (1913)

NONFICTION AND ESSAYS BY JACK LONDON

Through the Rapids on the Way to the Klondike (1899)
From Dawson to the Sea (1899)
What Communities Lose by the Competitive System (1900)
The Impossibility of War (1900)
Phenomena of Literary Evolution (1900)
A Letter to Houghton Mifflin Co. (1900)
Husky, Wolf Dog of the North (1900)
Editorial Crimes – A Protest (1901)
Again the Literary Aspirant (1902)
The People of the Abyss (1903)
How I Became a Socialist (1903)[107]
War of the Classes (1905)[106]
The Story of an Eyewitness (1906)
A Letter to Woman's Home Companion (1906)
"The Lepers of Molokai" in Woman's Home Companion (1908)[108]
"The Nature Man" in Woman's Home Companion (1908)[109]
"The High Seat of Abundance" in Woman's Home Companion (1908)[110]
Revolution, and other Essays (1910)
Mexico's Army and Ours (1914)
Lawgivers (1914)
Our Adventures in Tampico (1914)
Stalking the Pestilence (1914)
The Red Game of War (1914)
The Trouble Makers of Mexico (1914)
With Funston's Men (1914)

PLAYS BY JACK LONDON

Theft (1910)
Daughters of the Rich: A One Act Play (1915)
The Acorn Planter: A California Forest Play (1916)
Poetry
A Heart (1899)
Abalone Song (1913)
And Some Night (1914)
Ballade of the False Lover (1914)
Cupid's Deal (1913)
Daybreak (1901)
Effusion (1901)
George Sterling (1913)
Gold (1915)
He Chortled with Glee (1899)
He Never Tried Again (1912)
His Trip to Hades (1913)
Homeland (1914)
Hors de Saison (1913)
If I Were God (1899)
In a Year (1901)
In and Out (1911)
Je Vis en Espoir (1897)
Memory (1913)
Moods (1913)
My Confession (1912)
My Little Palmist (1914)
Of Man of the Future (1915)
Oh You Everybody's Girl (19)
On the Face of the Earth You are the One (1915)
Rainbows End (1914)
Republican Rallying Song (1916)
Sonnet (1901)
The Gift of God (1905)
The Klondyker's Dream (1914)
The Lover's Liturgy (1913)
The Mammon Worshippers (1911)
The Republican Battle-Hymn (1905)
The Return of Ulysses (1915)
The Sea Sprite and the Shooting Star (1916)
The Socialist's Dream (1912)
The Song of the Flames (1903)
The Way of War (1906)
The Worker and the Tramp (1911)
Tick! Tick! Tick! (1915)
Too Late (1912)
Weasel Thieves (1913)
When All the World Shouted my Name (1905)
Where the Rainbow Fell (1902)
Your Kiss (1914)

COMPLETE LIST OF SHORT STORIES BY JACK LONDON

"Typhoon off the Coast of Japan" (November 12, 1893)
" 'Frisco Kid's' Story" (February 15, 1895)
"Sakaicho, Hona Asi and Hakadaki" (April 19, 1895)
"Night's Swim In Yeddo Bay" (May 27, 1895)
"Who Believes in Ghosts!" (October 21, 1895)
"And 'Frisco Kid Came Back" (November 4, 1895)
"One More Unfortunate" (December 18, 1895)
"O Haru" (1993; written in April 1897)
"The Mahatma's Little Joke" (1993; written in May 1897)
"The Strange Experience of a Misogynist" (1993; written between May and September 1897), originally titled "The Misogynist"
"Two Gold Bricks" (September 1897)
"The Plague Ship" (1993; written between September and December 1897)
"The Devil’s Dice Box" (December 1976; written in September 1898)
"The Test: A Clondyke Wooing" (1983; written in September 1898)
"A Klondike Christmas" (1983; written in November 1898)
"A Dream Image" (1898)
"To the Man on Trail: A Klondike Christmas" (January 1899)
"The White Silence" (February 1899)
"The Son of the Wolf" (April 1899)
"The Men of Forty-Mile" (May 1899)
"A Thousand Deaths" (May 1899)
"An Old Soldier's Story" (May 20, 1899)
"In a Far Country" (June 1899)
"The Priestly Prerogative" (July 1899)
"The Handsome Cabin Boy" (July 1899)
"The Wife of a King" (August 1899)
"In the Time of Prince Charley" (September 1899)
"Old Baldy" (September 16, 1899)
"The Grilling of Loren Ellery" (September 24, 1899)
"The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone" (November 1899)
"The King of Mazy May" (November 30, 1899)
"The Wisdom of the Trail" (December 1899)
"A Daughter of the Aurora" (December 24, 1899)
"Pluck and Pertinacity" (1899)
"An Odyssey of the North" (January 1900)
"A Lesson in Heraldry" (March 1900)
"The End of the Chapter" (June 9, 1900)
"Uri Bram's God" (June 24, 1900)
"Even unto Death" (July 28, 1900)
"Grit of Women" (August 1900)
"Jan the Unrepentant" (August 1900)
"The Man with the Gash" (September 1900)
"Their Alcove" (September 1900)
"Housekeeping in the Klondike" (September 16, 1900)
"The Proper 'Girlie' " (October 1900)
"Thanksgiving on Slav Creek" (November 24, 1900)
"Where the Trail Forks" (December 1900)
"The Great Interrogation" (December 1900)
"Semper Idem" (December 1900)
"A Northland Miracle" (November 4, 1926; written in 1900)
"Dutch Courage" (November 29, 1900)
"A Relic of the Pliocene" (January 12, 1901)
"The Law of Life" (March 1901)
"Siwash" (March 1901)
"The Lost Poacher" (March 14, 1901)
"At the Rainbow's End" (March 24, 1901)
"The God of His Fathers" (May 1901)
"The Scorn of Woman" (May 1901)
"The Minions of Midas" (May 1901)
"Chris Farrington: Able Seaman" (May 23, 1901)
"A Hyperborean Brew" (July 1901)
"Bald Face" (September 6, 1901)
"Keesh, Son of Keesh" (January 1902)
"An Adventure in the Upper Sea" (May 1902)
"To Build a Fire" (May 29, 1902, revised August 1908)
"Diable --- A Dog" (June 1902), renamed Bâtard in 1904
"To Repel Boarders" (June 1902)
"The ‘Fuzziness' of Hoockla-Heen" (July 3, 1902)
"Moon-Face" (July 21, 1902)
"Nam-Bok, the Liar" (August 1902)
"Li Wan the Fair" (August 1902)
"The Master of Mystery" (September 1902)
"In the Forests of the North" (September 1902)
"The Sunlanders" (September 1902)
"The Death of Ligoun" (September 1902)
"The Story of Jees Uck" (September 1902)
"The Sickness of Lone Chief" (October 1902)
"The League of the Old Men" (October 4, 1902)
"Lost Face" (1902)
"Master of Mystery" (1902)
"In Yeddo Bay" (February 1903)
"The One Thousand Dozen" (March 1903)
"The Shadow and the Flash" (June 1903)
“The Faith of Men" (June 1903)
"The Leopard Man's Story" (August 1903)
"The Marriage of Lit-Lit" (September 1903)
"Local Color" (October 1903)
"Too Much Gold" (December 1903)
"Amateur Night" (December 1903)
"The Dominant Primordial Beast" (1903)
"Keesh, The Bear Hunter" (January 1904); often reprinted as "The Story of Keesh"
"The Banks of the Sacramento" (March 17, 1904)
"White and Yellow" (February 16, 1905)
"The King of the Greeks" (March 2, 1905)
"A Raid on the Oyster Pirates" (March 16, 1905)
"The Siege of the 'Lancashire Queen' ” (March 30, 1905)
"Charley's Coup” (April 13, 1905)
"Demetrios Contos” (April 27, 1905)
"Yellow Handkerchief” (May 11, 1905)
"All Gold Cañon" (November 1905)
"Love of Life" (December 1905)
"The Sun-Dog Trail" (December 1905)
"A Nose for the King" (March 1906)
"Planchette" (June 1906)
"The Unexpected" (August 1906)
"Brown Wolf" (August 1906)
"The Apostate" (September 1906)
"Up the Slide" (October 25, 1906)
"A Wicked Woman" (November 1906)
"The White Man's Way" (November 4, 1906)
"The Wit of Porportuk" (December 1906)
"When God Laughs" (January 1907)
"Just Meat" (March 1907)
"Created He Them" (April 1907)
"Morganson's Finish" (May 1907)
"A Day's Lodging" (May 25, 1907)
"Negore the Coward" (September 1907)
"Chased by the Trail" (September 26, 1907)
"The Passing of Marcus O'Brien" (January 1908)
"Trust" (January 1908)
"That Spot" (February 1908)
"Flush of Gold" (April 1908)
"Make Westing" (April 1908)
"The Enemy of All the World" (October 1908)
"Aloha Oe" (December 1908)
"A Curious Fragment" (December 10, 1908)
"The Dream of Debs" (January 1909)
"The House of Mapuhi" (January 1909)
"The Seed of McCoy" (April 1909)
"The Madness of John Harned" (May 1909)
"South of the Slot" (May 22, 1909)
"Good-by, Jack" (June 1909)
"The Chinago" (June 26, 1909)
"The Sheriff of Kona" (August 1909)
"The Heathen" (September 1909)
"A Piece of Steak" (November 20, 1909)
"Koolau the Leper" (December 1909)
"Mauki" (December 1909)
“The Mission of John Starhurst” (December 29, 1909); reprinted as "The Whale Tooth"
"Samuel" (1909)
"Chun An Chun" (Spring 1910)
"The Terrible Solomons" (March 1910)
"The Inevitable White Man" (May 14, 1910)
"The Unparalleled Invasion" (July 1910)
"Winged Blackmail" (September 1910)
"When the World was Young" (September 10, 1910)
"The Benefit of the Doubt" (November 12, 1910)
"Under the Deck Awnings" (November 19, 1910)
"Yah! Yah! Yah!" (December 1910)
"The House of Pride" (December 1910)
"To Kill a Man" (December 10, 1910)
"Bunches of Knuckles" (December 18, 1910)
"Goliath" (1910)
"The 'Francis Spaight' " (January 1911)
"The Hobo and the Fairy" (February 11, 1911)
"The Strength of the Strong" (March 1911)
"The Eternity of Forms" (March 1911)
"A Son of the Sun" (May 27. 1911)
"The Taste of the Meat" (June 1911)
“The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn" (June 24, 1911)
"The Meat" (July 1911)
“The Night Born" (July 1911)
"War" (July 29, 1911)
"The Goat Man of Fuatino" (July 20, 1911)
“The Stampede to Squaw Creek" (August 1911)
"The Mexican" (August 19, 1911)
"Shorty Dreams" (September 1911)
"A Little Account with Swithin Hall" (September 2, 1911)
"A Goboto Night" (September 30, 1911)
"The Man on the Other Bank" (October 1911)
"The Pears of Parlay" (October 14, 1911)
"The Race for Number Three" (November 1911)
"The End of the Story" (November 1911)
" The Jokers of New Gibbon" (November 11, 1911)
"By the Turtles of Tasman" (November 19, 1911)
"The Little Man" (December 1911)
"The Unmasking of the Cad" (December 23, 1911)
"The Hanging of Cultus George" (January 1912)
"The Mistake of Creation" (February 1912)
"A Flutter in Eggs" (March 1912)
"The Sea-Farmer" (March 1912)
"The Feathers of the Sun" (March 9, 1912)
"The Town-Site of Tra-Lee" (April 1912)
"Wonder of Woman" (May 1912)
"The Prodigal Father" (May 1912)
"The Scarlet Plague" (June 1912)
"The Captain of the Susan Drew" (December 1, 1912)
"Samuel" (May 1913)
"The Sea-Gangsters" (November 1913)
"Told in the Drooling Ward" (June 1914)
"The Hussy" (December 1916)
"Man of Mine" (February 1917)
"Like Argus of the Ancient Times" (March 1917)
"Jerry of the Islands" (1917)
"When Alice Told Her Soul" (March 1918)
"The Princess" (June 1918)
"The Tears of Ah Kim" (July 1918)
"The Water Baby" (September 1918)
"The Red One" (October 1918)
"In the Cave of the Dead" (November 1918)
"Shin-Bones" (1918)
"On the Makaloa Mat" (March 1919)
"The Bones of Kahekili" (July 1919)
"Whose Business Is to Live" (September 1922)
"Eyes of Asia" (September 1924)

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