Jack London
Born John Griffith Chaney.
(1876 – 1916)
A famous American novelist and short-story writer, journalist, and social activist.
In his works Jack London deals romantically with elemental struggles for survival. His works have been extensively translated and he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain a large fortune from his works alone.
The Sea-Wolf, first published in 1904, is a psychological adventure novel. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him...