[1부 중에서]<강철군화:1908>를 쓴 잭 런던은 누구?

1876	Born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, in San Francisco to Flora 
	Wellman, common-law wife of William Henry Chaney.  She married John 
	London on September 7, and Jack took his surname.

1891	Bought sloop Razzle Dazzle and became an oyster pirate on San 
	Francisco Bay.

1893	Served eight months as a seaman aboard sealing vessel Sophia 
	Sutherland.  His "Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan" won 
	first prize in a contest sponsored by the San Francisco Call.

1894	Worked as laborer;  tramped "on the road" with Coxey's Industrial 
	Army of the Unemployed and then on his own;  served 30-day sentence 
	for vagrancy.  His 1907 book, The Road, was based on these 
	experiences.

1895	Attended Oakland High School;  his articles and short stories 
	appeared in The High School Aegis.

1896	Joined the Socialist Labor Party.

1897	Left the University of California after one semester.  Worked in a 
	laundry before leaving for Alaska in July for the Klondike gold 
	rush.  Returned to Oakland in July, 1898.

1898	Submitted "A Thousand Deaths" to The Black Cat magazine, which 
	published the story in May, 1899.  The "first money I ever received 
	for a story."

1899	"To the Man on Trail" published in the Overland Monthly.

1900	"An Odyssey of the North" published in the Atlantic Monthly in 
	January.  Married Bess Maddern on April 7;  Published his first 
	book, The Son of the Wolf.

1901	Daughter Joan born on January 15.

1902	Second daughter Bess born on October 20.  Lived for six weeks 
	(August-September) among the poor in the East End of London, 
	England, leading to The People of the Abyss.  Published A Daughter 
	of the Snows (his first novel), Children of the Frost and 
	The Cruise of the Dazzler.

1903	Published The Call of the Wild, The Kempton-Wace Letters 
	(written with Anna Strunsky), and The People of the Abyss.

1904	War correspondent for Russo-Japanese War.  Bess Maddern London 
	filed for divorce.  Published The Sea Wolf and The Faith of Men.

1905	Purchased his first 129 of the eventual 1400 acres of the 
	Beauty Ranch in Glen Ellen in the Sonoma Valley.  Married 
	Charmian Kittredge.  Published War of the Classes, The Game, and 
	Tales of the Fish Patrol.

1906	Began building schooner Snark for projected seven-year, 
	round-the-world voyage.  Reported San Francisco earthquake.  
	Published Moon-Face and Other Stories, White Fang, and 
	Scorn of Women.

1907	Snark, with Jack, Charmian and crew, sailed to Hawaii, 
	Marquesas Islands, and Tahiti.  Published Before Adam, 
	Love of Life and Other Stories, and The Road.

1908	Snark continued to Samoa, Fiji Islands, New Hebrides, 
	Solomon Islands, and Australia, where Jack and Charmian were 
	hospitalized and forced to abandon cruise.  Published The Iron 
	Heel.

1909	Returned to Glen Ellen.  Published Martin Eden.

1910	Step-sister Eliza London Shepard became ranch superintendent.  
	Daughter Joy born on June 19, died on June 21.  Published Lost 
	Face, Revolution and Other Essays, Burning Daylight, 
	and Theft:  A Play in Four Acts.

1911	Spent summer driving wagon and four horses to Oregon and back,
	with Charmian and valet Yoshimatsu Nakata.  Published When God 
	Laughs and Other Stories, Adventure, The Cruise of the Snark, 
	and South Sea Tales.

1912	With Charmian, sailed aboard the Dirigo from Baltimore to 
	Seattle around Cape Horn.  Published The House of Pride and Other 
	Tales of Hawaii, A Son of the Sun, and Smoke Bellew.

1913	Wolf House destroyed by fire.  Attended San Francisco premier
	of The Sea Wolf, the first feature-length film produced in the U.S.  
	Published The Night Born, The Abysmal Brute, John Barleycorn, and 
	The Valley of the Moon.

1914	Went to Vera Cruz to report on the Mexican Revolution, 
	then left for Hawaii after returning to Glen Ellen for health.  
	Published The Strength of the Strong and The Mutiny of the 
	Elsinore.

1915	Sailed to Hawaii in February and again in December.  
	Published The Scarlet Plague and The Star Rover.

1916	Resigned from the Socialist Party.  Returned from Hawaii 
	in July.  Died at the Beauty Ranch on November 22.  Published 
	The Acorn-Planter:  A California Forest Play, The Little Lady of 
	the Big House, and The Turtles of Tasman.

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처음으로 출간한 책, <늑대의 자식>, 1900

This volume is Jack London's first published book. London became a professional writer in 1899 with the publication of such short stories as "A Thousand Deaths," "To the Man on Trail," and "White Silence."

Almost overnight, London had begun to achieve fame (he was sometimes called the "Kipling of the Klondike"), and in 1900 Houghton, Mifflin and Company offered to publish London's Alaskan tales in book form, to be called The Son of the Wolf.

사회주의자 노동자 당원이었던 잭 런던의 당원증.

잭 런던은 1896년 오클랜드에서 가입해 '소년 사회주의자'가 됐다.

Jack London's membership card in the Socialist Labor Party, Oakland, April, 1896.
As a tramp on the road, and laboring at spirit-deadening jobs in canneries and factories for starvation wages, the young Jack London deplored the subjugation of the working class by the wealthy. He joined the party in Oakland in 1896, became known as the "boy socialist" for his lecturing, and even ran for mayor twice for the Social Democratic Party.

Despite his own individualism and financial success, London remained a vocal socialist throughout his life. However, he resigned from the party shortly before his death, because he felt it had lost its fire and would not take the risks necessary to achieve victory in the class struggle.

Jack London. "A Camera and a Journey," in In Many Wars, Tokyo, Tokyo Printing Company, 1904.

In 1904, London covered the Russo-Japanese War as a correspondent for the Hearst newspaper syndicate. Not content to wait in Japan with other correspondents for permission to travel to the front in Korea, London set out on his own by rickshaw and train. He got as far as Moji, where taking some innocent photographs landed him in jail with his camera confiscated. Moji was a naval base, and it took the intervention of fellow correspondent Richard Harding Davis to free London and his camera. London pressed on to Korea, via junk and sampan.

London had become famous with the publication of The Call of the Wild in 1903, and his own escapades at the front made even better news than the war stories he filed. His camera essay first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner on February 3, 1904, with the headline, "How Jack London got in and out of jail in Japan." In Many Wars is a compilation of war essays by the correspondents.

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