Later these hard-life adventures provided rich material for his well known works, such as The Sea-Wolf. In 1894, he was arrested in Niagara Falls and jailed for vagrancy. After leaving school at the age of fourteen, London worked as a seaman, rode freight trains as a hobo, and joined in protest armies of the unemployed during the hard times of the 1890s. Young Jack frequented the Oakland Public Library, where he was influenced by the works of Flaubert, Tolstoy, and other major novelists. Although his youth was marked by poverty, he became an avid reader by the age of ten. After he was deserted by his father, an itinerant astrologer, he was raised in Oakland by his mother. Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876.
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