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Jack London was the famous American novelist and short story writer. He was born in San

Francisco in 1876. He quit school at fourteen to become a sailor. He was a self- taught student,

he finished his high

school and college education during six months. He led an adventurous but poor life. His view

point was in favor of the poor and socialism. He read a lot of books of Karl Marx. He was

influenced by Marxist Party theory and the October Revolution. In 1985, he joined the Socialist

Labour Party but in the last years of his life, he moved away from the working class and in 1916

he left the party. In 1916 he committed suicide because of despair dream. He used an overdose

of morphine and drowned himself in the sea. He was an adventure novelist, a Social reformer and

a prominent socialist who often signed under the line “Yours for revolution, Jack London.”