Chris Davis
American Literature
Date
Jack London: To Build A Fire
Jack London was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California. The name
given to him at birth was John Griffith Chaney. His mother, Flora Wellman Chaney, was
abandoned by his father before he was born. When he was nine months old, his mother married a
man named John London and he adopted her baby. Jack London’s mother was sick and frail and
unable to provide nourishment for him, so she had an African American woman, Mrs. Virginia…
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