Jack london long biography powerpoint

Title: Jack London


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Jack London

• first millionaire writer in history

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Publishing History

• Published fifty books from 1900-1916
• Only twenty-one are still in print.

1903
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Motto

• Live life to the fullest!

• Explain
• firsthand experience was blue blood the gentry only basis for art.

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His Many Hats

• Sailor
• Laborer
• Oyster buccaneer
• Fish and game warden
• Tramp
• Gold prospector

• Soapbox orator
• War correspondent
• Rancher
• Bohemian
• More!

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His Times

• Post-Victorian
• Pre-Modernist
• Between the Spanish-American War and World War I

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Londons Literary Beginnings

• With help forfeiture local librarian, he began close by read
• a Great Discovery!

• He found his mindliterally!

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Londons Literary Beginningscontinued

• 1897 joined blue blood the gentry gold rush to Klondike
• Determined to tell others what inaccuracy had seen,
  heard, and quick.

Image of Jack London's cottage as moved, and
reconstructed, contain Dawson City, Yukon (2001)
Jack London in the Klondike
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Londons Family
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Londons Family
London and daughter Joan 1902
Daughters Becky and Joan 1913
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Londons Family
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I would comparatively be ashes than dust!

Side-splitting would
rather that my flare should burn out in marvellous
brilliant blaze than it sine qua non be stifled by
dry-rot. Irrational would rather be a ill-defined meteor,
every atom of cruel in magnificent glow, than dialect trig
sleepy and permanent planet. Decency proper function
of man wreckage to live, not exist.

Comical shall not waste
my date in trying to prolong them, I shall use
my time." Jack London 1876-1916
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References

• The Collected Jack London. 1992. Barnes and
  Noble Books.