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Speaking of Stories transforming
short stories from the page to the stage
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JACK LONDON Jack London (To Build a Fire): Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876 and was the child of Flora Wellman and her common-law husband William Chaney. Nine months later his mother married John London, and renamed her son John Griffith London. After graduating from the 8th grade he borrowed money from his family to purchase a boat and became an oyster pirate on San Francisco Bay. In 1895 he attended Oakland High School and published short stories and articled in the school paper. He was admitted into the University of California, but left after one semester and took to the seas again. In 1898 he returned to Oakland and began a regimen to become a professional writer. In 1900 his first book The Son of the Wolf was published. During his career as a novelist he published over 30 books, many posthumously, and include The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Burning Daylight, and Hearts of Three. He died unexpectedly on November 22, 1916 of what was attributed to renal colic.
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