DEATH OF JACKLONDON

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2938, 25 November 1916, Page 9

DEATH OF JACKLONDON

NOTED AMERICAN AUTHOR , Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. New York, November 23. - Obituary: Jack London has died at Gleneilen,. California. The cause of death was uraemia. . ' [Jack London, the well-known writer, was born in . San Francisco in 1876, and was educated.at the University of California. He had a successful career, and has had a varied life, being in turn sailor, gold miner, tramp, writer, Socialist, lecturer, and journalist, rln his search for adventures among the scum marine population of San Francisco Bay, he lost his ideal romance,and replaced it with the real romance ' of things. When lie was seventeen, he shipped before the mast as an able seaman, and went to Japan' and Bellring Sea, .-.where lie had numerous-ad-ventures. Becoming possessed of an interest in sociology and economics, he tramped over the United States and Canada, many thousands of miles, and secured much reaHife material for a book. He had more than one gaol experience during this tramp. Later on lie .continued this vagabond career in the East End .of London. He went, over Chilcoot Pass with the first of tlio Klondike rush of 1897;' went as war correspondent to Japan, Korea, and Manchuria in 1904, to Mexico in 1914; in 1900, he started on a' seven years' cruise around the world, in a 50ft. ketch-rig yacht. Among his most popular novels are: "The Sea Wolf.'' "Moon-Face," "Scorn of Women," "Iron Heel," "Cruise of the Snark," "Scuth Sea Tales," "When.-God Laughs," "Valley of tho Moon," John Barleycorn," and "The Jacket." In 1900 he married Miss Bessie Maddern, of Oakland, California. He was one of the best-known story writers of the day, his books being always breezy and true to life, while his detail work was excellent.]