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Jack London’s personal life

Jack London married Bess Maddern in 1900. They had two daughters – Becky and Joan. Their marriage lasted only a few years, and 1905 London married another woman – Charmian Kittredge and lived with her for the rest of his life.

Final years of London

Over the last years of his life the Jack London had a lot of problems – financial and, consequently, creative. In order to pay his debts he had to write articles and he found himself unworthy. To these health issues were added. In the end kidney disease took Jack London’s life.

The famous American writer died on November 22, 1916 at his Californian ranch at the age of forty.

1. What was the real name of Jack London?

John Griffith Chaney

2. When was Jack London born?

1876

3. What was his first novel?

"The Cruise of the Dazzler"

4. Which literature movement London was working in?

Realism

5. What is the name of one of the autobiographical novels of Jack London?

"John Barleycorn"

6. Jack London was the innovator of the genre that later would be called:

science fiction

7. What is the main science fiction novel by Jack London?

"The Scarlet Plague"

8. At what age did Jack start his writing career?

23

9. Who was London's mother?

A spiritualist

10. What was Jack London arrested for at the age of 15?

Vagrancy