Jack London

Person · Open Library

Born

12 January 1876

Died

22 November 1916

Works

9358

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Orchestra

Country

GB

Active from

1904

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Listeners

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There are 3 artists with the name Jack London (1) John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein

   · 1982 · cited 18,689x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,760x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,947x

4. Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3

   · 2024 · cited 15,144x

5. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 13,444x

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Quotes

• “I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”
• “Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.”
• “I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. “Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!””
• “Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”
• “The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.”
• “A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

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