JACK LONDON, GLEN ELLEN, CA: Born to a single mother, self-educated, impoverished for much of his early life in San Francisco where the city’s 1906 earthquake would see his home razed by fire, and narrowly avoiding from scurvy during the Klondike Gold Rush (the experience later recalled for The Call Of The Wild), against all the odds, Jack London went on to achieve a great deal in his 40 years. His actual route to striking gold, of course, came as a fiction writer, amassing one serious oeuvre by the age of 30 and retreating to the rolling hills of The Sonoma Valley, in a spot now known as Jack London State Park. Thats right, they went and named the area after him; all 46 acres of it.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:58:38 +0000
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