109 years ago today, on November 22, 1916 (October 27, 1916 in the lunar calendar), American novelist Jack London committed suicide. Jack London is like Jack London (1876 - 1916), an American novelist. Born in San Francisco. His father was a bankrupt farmer and his family was poor. When he was a child, Jack made a living by selling physical strength, selling newspapers, working as a child labor, later working as a sailor, and went to Japan. After returning to China, he worked in a jute factory and a railway factory. Later, he joined the ranks of gold miners in Canada, but returned empty-handed. From then on, he immersed himself in writing. His early works include "The Call of the Wild"(1903),"White Teeth"(1906), etc. In 1909, he published his masterpiece and autobiographical novel "Martin Eden", which described the bumpy fate of a realist writer who came from a working family in a capitalist society and made a sharp criticism of society. He has written more than 150 short stories in his life, among which outstanding ones are "The Mexican","Love of Life","Under the Canopy on the Deck", etc. The characters in his works have distinctive personalities, the story plot is compact, the writing is vivid, and it is quite infectious. After he became famous, his spirit was severely affected by financial bankruptcy and family disputes, and he committed suicide on November 22, 1916. Jack London at the age of 29