I-Search on Jack London
Jack London was an amazing poet & story writer.
I don’t know much about Jack London but what I do know is that
he wrote “To Build a Fire” & “White Fang” along with many other novels.
As I researched London I wanted to find more things out about Jack London so I came up with
three questions, How Jack London Lived [childhood],What other novels he wrote and How he died.
What I found was that Jack London had a bad childhood, Born at 615 Third Street, San
Francisco, California, January 12. Son of Flora Wellman, and William Henry Chaney. Chaney, an
astrologer, lived with Flora Wellman during 1874-1875, Chaney deserted his wife upon learning of
her pregnancy and later in 1897 denied to London that he could have been his father.
On Sept. 7, Flora (who used the name Chaney), marries John London, a native of Pennsylvania and
Union Army veteran, a widower with two daughters. John London accepts Flora's son as his......
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