WRITER

Jack London

1876 - 1916

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John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack London has received more than 6,961,482 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Jack London is the 92nd most popular writer (down from 63rd in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from United States (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Writer.

Jack London is most famous for his novels, such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 81.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 94

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jack London ranks 92 out of 7,302. Before him are Knut Hamsun, Pablo Neruda, Giorgio Vasari, José Saramago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Henry David Thoreau. After him are Toni Morrison, Erich Maria Remarque, Emily Brontë, Matsuo Bashō, George Sand, and Marquis de Sade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Jack London ranks 2. Before him is Pope Pius XII. After him are Konrad Adenauer, Mata Hari, Erich Raeder, Zewditu, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Wilhelm Pieck, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Casals, and Alexander I of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1916, Jack London ranks 3. Before him are Grigori Rasputin, and Franz Joseph I of Austria. After him are Ernst Mach, Yuan Shikai, Henryk Sienkiewicz, William Ramsay, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Élie Metchnikoff, Franz Marc, Odilon Redon, and Umberto Boccioni.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack London ranks 72 out of 20,380. Before him are Danny DeVito (1944), James Stewart (1908), George H. W. Bush (1924), Charles Lindbergh (1902), Henry David Thoreau (1817), and Helen Keller (1880). After him are Toni Morrison (1931), Patrick Swayze (1952), Bill Clinton (1946), Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Woody Allen (1935), and Al Capone (1899).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jack London ranks 8. Before him are Ernest Hemingway (1899), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), and Henry David Thoreau (1817). After him are Toni Morrison (1931), Stephen King (1947), Dr. Seuss (1904), William Faulkner (1897), J. D. Salinger (1919), and John Steinbeck (1902).

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