Jack London

Artist bio

There are 2 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, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

(2) Jack London is an Icelandic band.
The band consists of Unnar Gísli Sigurmundsson (guitar), Árni Magnússon (bass), Símon Geir Geirsson (drums), Ólafur Rúnar Sigurmundsson (keyboard) and Ingvar Leví Gunnarsson (guitar)
Jack London was formed for a New-Years eve concert in 2004. All the members knew each other before the band but no one knew that they would one day start a band together.

In December 2008 the band released their first album called"White Suit Getting Brown" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.