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Jack London

1876 - 1916

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John Griffith London (né Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal welfare, workers' rights and socialism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jack London is the 106th most popular writer (down from 92nd in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from United States (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Writer.

Jack London is most famous for his novels, such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang.

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Among writers, Jack London ranks 106 out of 7,302. Before him are Virginia Woolf, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas fils, Miyamoto Musashi, Arthur Rimbaud, and François Rabelais. After him are Knut Hamsun, W. Somerset Maugham, Stephen King, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marquis de Sade, and José Saramago.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Jack London ranks 5. Before him are Pope Pius XII, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Mata Hari, and Konrad Adenauer. After him are Adolf Windaus, John Macleod, Róbert Bárány, Erich Raeder, Zewditu, Otto Diels, and Wilhelm Pieck. Among people deceased in 1916, Jack London ranks 3. Before him are Franz Joseph I of Austria, and Grigori Rasputin. After him are Henryk Sienkiewicz, William Ramsay, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Ernst Mach, Élie Metchnikoff, Yuan Shikai, Charles Taze Russell, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, and Odilon Redon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack London ranks 87 out of 20,380. Before him are Patrick Swayze (1952), Charles Lindbergh (1902), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), Helen Keller (1880), B.B. King (1925), and Brigham Young (1801). After him are Stanley Kubrick (1928), Robin Williams (1951), John Glenn (1921), Al Capone (1899), Stephen King (1947), and Caitlyn Jenner (1949).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jack London ranks 13. Before him are Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), George R. R. Martin (1948), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Louisa May Alcott (1832), and Ursula K. Le Guin (1929). After him are Stephen King (1947), Ezra Pound (1885), Dr. Seuss (1904), Henry David Thoreau (1817), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), and William Faulkner (1897).

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