Jack's Childhood
Jack was born in this town on this year.
What is San Francisco in 1876?
After graduating 8th grade from Oakland Grammar School, Jack began working here to help out with family finances.
What is a fish cannery?
After returning from his sailing adventure, Jack spends his first year back on dry land doing this activity and forming his philosophy about this political and economic theory.
What is traveling around the United States as a homeless bum and learning about socialism?
In 1900 Jack rejects the romantic notion of love and marries this woman for this reason.
He marries Bess Maddern because she had the financial means to support his fledgling writing career and they could create strong healthy children together?
This novel is Jack London's most famous novel.
What is Call of the Wild?
The madness known as the Klondike Gold Rush, took place in this country.
What is Canada?
These two women, married to Jack, could not have been more different in temperament.
Who are Bess Maddern and Charmain Kittredge?
When Jack was five, his family moved here to take up farming.
Where is Oakland, CA?
Jack saved up money to buy a small sloop and take up this illegal activity.
What is stealing oysters? (or becoming an oyster pirate?)
This incident led to Jack deciding to go back to California and attend high school, which he never finished and did this instead.
What is being arrested for vagrancy and completing his GED?
Jack travels to this place in 1902 to escape from his overbearing, pregnant wife, and after his return he writes this non-fictional piece of work.
What is the slums of London and The People of the Abyss?
This short story beat out Stanford and Berkeley scholars and earned Jack $25.00. It also was published in the Atlantic Monthly and firmly established Jack as an up and coming author.
What is A Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan?
Jack London convinced these two people to invest their life savings and travel north with him to mine gold.
Who is his sister, Eliza London and her husband?
She contracted typhoid at only twelve years old, felt the loss of her family's fortune at fifteen years old, and later tried to commit suicide when her lover abandoned her after trying to force her to have an abortion.
Who is Flora Wellman?
Jack goes here to escape doing his farm chores and discovers a love of this activity.
What is the library and a love of reading?
Jack agreed to work for this organization and do this in order to escape the possibility of going to jail.
What is the California Fish and Game Department, and turning his fellow pirates into the warden?
Jack decided to give college a try and attend this university, but only attended for one semester because of this.
What is UC Berkeley, and he dropped out because of failing grades and lack of finances?
In 1905 Jack divorces Bess and marries this woman.
Who is Charmain Kittredge?
This piece of non fiction writing about the slums of London kept Jack away from the birth of his second daughter, Joan.
What is People of the Abyss?
This was the easiest and fastest route to Dawson City.
What is the all water, or rich man's route?
This woman was largely responsible for teaching Jack how to be loving and empathetic.
Who was Virginia Prentiss, or Mammie Jennie?
This is the last year of formal education that Jack completed.
What is 8th grade?
At seventeen years of age, Jack signed up to do this and venturing out of California for the first time, discovered a love of adventure.
What is become a sailor on the Sophie Sutherland, sailing to the Bering Sea to hunt seals?
After dropping out of UC Berkeley, Jack made this list of possible careers.
What are music, poetry, writing philosophical essays, and fiction writing?
Jack and Charmain build a ship named this and spend 1907-1909 sailing to these exotic places. .
What is the Sea Snark and the South Pacific Islands, including Australia and New Zealand?
This novel was loosely autobiographical and explored Jack's relationship with alcohol. It was said to have contributed to the Prohibition movement in the 1920's.
What is John Barleycorn?
These two routes were used most often to get to Dawson City in spite of the fact that they were extremely difficult and dangerous.
What are the Chilkoot Trail and the White Pass Trail?
This man never acknowledged paternity for Jack.
Who is William Chaney?
Jack worked at these odd jobs in order to help out with the family finances.
What is newspaper boy, sweeping floors and setting up pins in the bowling alley?
Jack named his first sailboat this name, which according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary means a state of confusion or hilarity.
What is Razzle Dazzle?
This led Jack to abandon his attempts at becoming a writer and convince his sister and brother-in-law to go to Canada with him for the Klondike Gold Rush.
What is over forty rejection letters?
Jack spent the last years of his life here before eventually dying of this ailment.
What is Beauty Ranch in Glen Ellen, California and kidney failure or stroke?
This companion novel to Call of the Wild explored the same Darwinian theme, survival of the fittest.
What is White Fang?
While in the Klondike, Jack discovered this, which was far more valuable than gold.
What is his sense of self and his passion for telling stories?
Jack rarely saw these two daughters because of his ex-wife's jealousy and he mourned the loss of this last daughter when she died in infancy?
Who are Bess (Becky), Joan and Joy?