USSR / Russia 1977 Medal 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack London UNC

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Russia - USSR medal 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack London, 1977
Shkurko, Salykov 1077. Diameter 60mm. 131.37g. Tompac. Mintage 1050pc. UNC. ЛМД. A.A. Leonova.
"100 лет со дня рождения Джека Лондона"

Jack London (1876–1916) was one of America’s most popular and widely translated writers, celebrated for his vivid adventure stories that captured the struggle for survival against nature and society.

Born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, he was the son of an unmarried spiritualist mother, Flora Wellman, and an absent astrologer father. Raised largely in Oakland by his mother and stepfather John London, whose surname he adopted, he grew up in poverty. At fourteen he left school and began a life of hard labor and adventure: working in a cannery, oyster pirating on San Francisco Bay, sailing to Japan on a sealing ship, riding the rails as a hobo, and joining protest marches of the unemployed.

In 1897 he joined the Klondike Gold Rush. Although he found little gold, the harsh northern experience provided the material for his greatest works. Returning to California, he resolved to become a professional writer. His first collection of Klondike stories appeared in 1900. Fame arrived with the novella The Call of the Wild (1903), the tale of a dog who reverts to primal instincts in the Yukon. It was followed by The Sea-Wolf (1904), White Fang (1906), and the classic short story “To Build a Fire.”

A committed socialist and prolific author, London produced more than fifty books in less than two decades, writing at least a thousand words a day. His works combined Darwinian ideas, Nietzschean individualism, and social criticism. He married twice—first to Bess Maddern, with whom he had two daughters, and later to Charmian Kittredge—and settled on Beauty Ranch in Glen Ellen, California, where he pursued experimental farming and built the ambitious but ill-fated Wolf House.

London died on November 22, 1916, at the age of forty, from kidney failure and related complications. Despite his short life, his stories of courage, struggle, and the wild continue to captivate readers worldwide and secure his place as a major figure in American literature.

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