[caption id=“attachment_2622” align=“alignleft” width=“223”] Jack London in 1903[/caption]

Jack London was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing? He was born in 1876, died fairly young at the age of 40, but amassed a fortune from novels such as The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906), and the short story To Build a Fire (1902/1908) which many critics assess as his best. London was also an activist - a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers.

Read more about the life of Jack London here.