Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876. Life was hard when Jack was growing up and he started working when he was 10. He did lots of different jobs. In his free time he went to the library and he spent many hours there, reading. In 1894 he went back to school, and published （ 出版）his first short story Typhoon, off the Coast of Japan. Then in 1896 he went to the University of California al Berkeley, but he had to leave because of money problems.
In 1897 he left for the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska. However, he became ill and came home and started working as a full - time writer. He wrote short stories and soon he was well - known. In 1903 he wrote his most famous story:The Call of the Wild. His next novel was TheSea -Wolf（1904） which is perhaps his best novel. With the money he bought a large farm in California, where he died, aged only 40 years old.
London wrote a lot of novels in his short life. Between 1905 and 1916 he published 18 novels and six collections of stories, as well as a play, different kinds of works of non - fiction and a biography (自传). He is best - known for his descriptions of nature and the animal world.
