Jack London was born on January 12, 1876 in a poor area of Oakland, California. He was a troubled young man who started writing at the age of twenty-four. Jack London traveled to many countries. In the course of sixteen years, he wrote nineteen novels, eighteen books of essays, short stories and many other books. A few of his more popular works, in addition to White Fang are: The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf and the Valley of the Moon. London died at age forty on November 21, 1916.