Jack London
Jack London (12 January 1876 – 22 November 1916), pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney, was an American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works describe elemental struggles for survival. They include The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906).
London was a socialist as well as one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.
He had less politically correct views on race and eugenics.