Jack London - vertaling naar frans
![[[Bookplate]] used by Jack London](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/(Bookplate of Jack London) (LOC) (15585512686).jpg?width=200 "[[Bookplate]] used by Jack London")
![London ''(right)'' at the [[Bohemian Grove]] with his friends [[Porter Garnett]] and [[George Sterling]]; a painting parodies his story ''[[The White Silence]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bohemian Grove Camp - Garnett, Sterling, London.jpg?width=200 "London ''(right)'' at the [[Bohemian Grove]] with his friends [[Porter Garnett]] and [[George Sterling]]; a painting parodies his story ''[[The White Silence]]''")
![London's 1903 story "The Shadow and the Flash" was reprinted in the June 1948 issue of ''[[Famous Fantastic Mysteries]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Famous fantastic mysteries 194806.jpg?width=200 "London's 1903 story \"The Shadow and the Flash\" was reprinted in the June 1948 issue of ''[[Famous Fantastic Mysteries]]''")
![''The Scarlet Plague'' was reprinted in the February 1949 issue of ''[[Famous Fantastic Mysteries]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Famous fantastic mysteries 194902.jpg?width=200 "''The Scarlet Plague'' was reprinted in the February 1949 issue of ''[[Famous Fantastic Mysteries]]''")
 and Joan (right).jpg?width=200 "Jack with daughters Becky (left) and Joan (right)")
![Jack and Charmian London (c. 1915) at [[Waikiki]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Londons surfing in hawaii.jpg?width=200 "Jack and Charmian London (c. 1915) at [[Waikiki]]")
![Carmel]], California](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary Austin, Jack London, George Sterling, Jimmie Hooper, restored.jpg?width=200 "Carmel]], California")
![Miners and prospectors ascend the Chilkoot Trail during the [[Klondike Gold Rush]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Miners climb Chilkoot.jpg?width=200 "Miners and prospectors ascend the Chilkoot Trail during the [[Klondike Gold Rush]]")
.jpg?width=200 "The ''Snark'' in Australia, 1921")
Wikipedia
John Griffith 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 rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen".
