His real name is John Griffith Chaney .. He was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco. Jack London began an early independent working life full of hardships. The student sold morning and evening newspapers .. At the end of elementary school at the age of fourteen, he entered the cannery of workers. The job was very hard, and he left the factory. He was an "oyster pirate", illegally catching oysters in San Francisco Bay (described in "The Tales of a Fisherman's Patrol"). In 1893, he was hired as a seafaring schooner to catch cats off the coast of Japan and in the Bering Sea. The first voyage gave London many vivid impressions, which later formed the basis of many of his sea stories and novels (The Sea Wolf, etc.). ). Subsequently, he also worked as an ironer in a laundry room and a fireman (described in Martin Eden). He became seriously engaged in literature at the age of 23, after returning from Alaska: the first northern stories were published in 1899, and in 1900 his first book, the collection of stories “Son of the Wolf” was published. This was followed by the following collections of stories:: : "The God of His Fathers" (Chicago, 1901), "Children of Frost" (New York, 1902), "Faith in Man" (New York, 1904), "Moon Face" (New York, 1906), "Lost Face" (New York, 1910), as well as the novels "The Daughter of the Snows" (1902) "The Sea Wolf" (1904), "Martin Eden" (1909) to the writer The writer worked a lot, for 15-17 hours a day ........ And he managed to write about 50 great books in his not very long writing career. Jack London died on November 22, 1916, in Glen Ellen, California. In recent years, he suffered from renal disease (uremia) and died from poisoning prescribed to him morphine ..