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| | London, Jack - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | LONDON, JACK [London, Jack] (John Griffith London), 1876-1916, American author, b. |
 | | The illegitimate son of an astrologer and a Welsh farm girl, he had a poverty-stricken childhood, brought up by his mother and her husband, John London. |
 | | He was an oyster pirate, a gold-seeker in the first Klondike rush, a newspaper correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War, and in 1914 a war correspondent in Mexico. |
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