<p>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. The Night Born is a collection of his best short stories, also included here are the following stories: The Madness of John Harned, When the World Was Young, The Benefit of the Doubt, Winged Blackmail, Bunch of Knuckles, War, Under the Deck Awnings, To Kill a Man and The Mexican. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)</p>