He worked as a war correspondent in the Russo-Japanese War:
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The American literary legend Jack London worked as a war correspondent in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. London was among the contingent of reporters representing the Hearst newspapers. He was on his first news assignment and had no experience as a reporter, but the 28-year-old writer had already received world acclaim for his novel The Call of the Wild and other stories about the 1897 Klondike gold rush.
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