Jack London(18761916), also known as John Griffith Chaney, was born in San Francisco. By the time he was thirty years old, he had already acquired international fame for his novelsThe Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf,andWhite Fang.Throughout his career, London wrote over fifty novels, short stories, plays, and political essays. He was among the first writers to work with the movie industry, andThe Sea-Wolfwas the basis for the first full-length American movie.