London, Jack

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Wildly popular American novelist (1876–1916) from the San Francisco Bay Area, best known as the author of adventure books such as Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1907); also an early troubadour of surfing—or as London called it, the "royal sport for the natural kings of earth." As a teenager, London worked as a seal hunter in Siberia and as a gold miner in the Klondike; by the time he sold...

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