Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction.
Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912)..
His career was well under way.
In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today.
This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction.
He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines.
Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career.
In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909).
He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books.
London was self-educated.
He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing.
Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction
