![]() ![]() ![]() He died by an overdose of morphine, which he was taking to ward off the pain of his diseases, and there is some debate about whether his death was accidental or a suicide. Nonetheless, he continued publishing his writing in periodicals, thrilling his readers with adventure stories until his death in 1916. During his adventures, London picked up many diseases the left him in deep pain and also contributed to his growing alcoholism. London also was an advocate of the rights of workers, unionization, and socialism, and wrote a number of novels on those topics. London lasted a year in the Yukon, but returned to California with a wealth of material for his stories, among them The Call of the Wild, which became his most famous work. London attended the University of California Berkeley for one semester, before dropping out to seek out his fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897. He worked in a cannery, hunted for oysters in San Francisco bay, traveled across the United States, and sailed around the Pacific, all before graduating from high school at age 19. ![]() Jack spent his youth traveling around California with his family, where he developed a taste for adventure. ![]() Young Jack took his stepfather's surname, London, when Flora married later that year. The Call of the Wild is a story of transformation in which the old Buckthe civilized, moral Buckmust adjust to the harsher realities of life in the frosty North, where survival is the only imperative. Jack London was born out of wedlock in 1876 to Flora Wellman Chaney. ![]()
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