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John Griffith London, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t
London in 1903
London at the age of nine with his dog Rollo, 1885
Jack London studying at Heinold's First and Last Chance in 1886
Heinold's First and Last Chance, "Jack London's Rendezvous"
Joan London was an American writer and the older of two daughters born to Jack London and his first wife, Elizabeth "Bess" Maddern London.
Jack London
…character contrasted two women he had known. London's pet name for Bess was "Mother-Girl" and Bess's for London was "Daddy-Boy". Their first child, Joan, was born on January 15, 1901, and their second, Bessie "Becky" (also reported as Bess), on October 20, 1902. Both children were born in Piedmont…
Portrait of London from the The Alaska Daily Empire, 1924
Joan (right) with her father and sister, c. 1905.