John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen".

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, and socialism. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his nonfiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

London died November 22, 1916, in a sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch. London's ashes were buried on his property not far from the Wolf House. The grave is marked by a mossy boulder. The buildings and property were later preserved as Jack London State Historic Park, in Glen Ellen, California.

Contents:

Novels

• The Call of the Wild
• White Fang
• The Iron Heel
• Short stories
• An Odyssey of the North
• To Build a Fire
• All Gold Canyon
• The Law of Life
• To the Man on the Trail
• Love of Life
• The Son of the Wolf
• The God of His Fathers
• Where the Trail Forks
• The Pearls of Parlay
• The Heathen
• The Master of Mystery

Poetry

• "A Heart"
• "Abalone Song"
• "And Some Night"
• "Ballade of the False Lover"
• "Cupid's Deal"
• "Daybreak"
• "Effusion"
• "George Sterling"
• "Gold"
• "He Chortled with Glee"
• "He Never Tried Again"
• "His Trip to Hades"
• "Homeland"
• "Hors de Saison"
• "If I Were God"
• "In a Year"
• "In and Out"
• "Je Vis en Espoir"
• "Memory"
• "Moods"
• "My Confession"
• "My Little Palmist"
• "Of Man of the Future"
• "Oh You Everybody's Girl (19)"
• "On the Face of the Earth You Are the One"
• "Rainbows End"
• "Republican Rallying Song"
• "Sonnet"
• "The Gift of God"
• "The Klondyker's Dream"
• "The Lover's Liturgy"
• "The Mammon Worshippers"
• "The Republican Battle-Hymn"
• "The Return of Ulysses"
• "The Sea Sprite and the Shooting Star"
• "The Socialist's Dream"
• "The Song of the Flames"
• "The Way of War"
• "The Worker and the Tramp"
• "Tick! Tick! Tick!"
• "Too Late"
• "Weasel Thieves"
• "When All the World Shouted My Name"
• "Where the Rainbow Fell"
• "Your Kiss"