John London, later adopted the name of Jack, was born in San Francisco in 1876. While his mother Flora Wellman was ill, he was raised by an ex-slave Virginia Prentiss. Later that year Jack’s mother, Flora, married John …show more content…
In his time back London ended up back at his mother’s house. During his time there, London soon realized that he had to study and work a job to earn his living. His time in school got him extremely interested in politics, especially socialism. He got involved with the Socialist Labor Party. Which eventually, he got kicked out of high school for it. Because he got kicked out of high school, London had to study on his own to pass the exams to get into the University of California, Berkeley. London got accepted. Unfortunately, after taking on year of class he dropped out and decided to follow the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897. Coming back the following year, he concluded that he was going to be a writer. Some of the experiences he had while away for the Klondike Gold Rush would pursue some of his best stories. Three years later he wrote “An Odyssey of the North”, which gave him his first success. Later that year, London married Bessie Maddern. It wasn’t love for why he married Bessie, it was because he believed that they were socially and genetically compatible for each other. They were blessed with two daughters, Joan and Becky, but as soon as his writing had taking off he began to isolate himself from his family to spend more time with his colleagues with the same scholarly interests. In 1902, London began to write “The Call of the Wild”. The following year, “The Call of the Wild” was published and he divorced his wife of three