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Facts:
Jack London was on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. His vigorous stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience. He was inspired by his experience in the Klondike to write White Fang and Call of the Wild. His experience from sea inspired him to write Sea-Wolf. Jack London passed away November 22nd 1916. Some even believe he had committed suicide.
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He began writing in 1893. That year a typhoon had nearly taken out London and his crew. The 17-year-old adventurer had made it home and regaled his mother with his tales of what had happened to him. When she saw an announcement in one of the local papers for a writing contest, she pushed her son to write down and submit his story. Armed with just an eighth-grade education, London captured the $25 first prize, beating out college students from Berkeley and Stanford

Jack London." 2013. The Biography Channel website. Nov 18 2013 http://www.biography.com/people/jack-london-9385499.Facts: Jack London was on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. His vigorous stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience. He was inspired by his experience in the Klondike to write White Fang and Call of the Wild. His experience from sea inspired him to write Sea-Wolf. Jack London passed away November 22nd 1916. Some even believe he had committed suicide.
Accomplishment:
He began writing in 1893. That year a typhoon had nearly taken out London and his crew. The 17-year-old adventurer had made it home and regaled his mother with his tales of what had happened to him. When she saw an announcement in one of the local papers for a writing contest, she pushed her son to write down and submit his story. Armed with just an eighth-grade education, London captured the $25 first prize, beating out college students from Berkeley and Stanford

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