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Early Life and Education
Jack London, born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California, came into the world under unusual circumstances.
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His mother, Flora Wellman, was an unconventional woman who practiced spiritualism and claimed to communicate with the spirit world. His father, William Chaney, a journalist, and lawyer who later became an astrologer, abandoned Flora before Jack was born.
Flora suffered a mental breakdown, and Jack was raised by a former slave named Virginia Prentiss, who became a maternal figure in his life.
Jack took the surname of his stepfather, John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran, after Flora married him in 1876.
The family moved frequently, and young Jack experienced the hardships of poverty. Despite his tumultuous childhood, Jack developed a voracious appetite for reading. He borrowed books from libraries and read extensively, fostering a love for literature and adventure.
At 14, London dropped out of school a