Fathers

By Max Musson: Jack London 1876 – 1916, was the son of Flora Wellman a woman of Puritan stock who was deserted by her husband while London was still very young. At the age of 13 London was already working in a local canning factory, later becoming an oyster pirate, a fisheries patrolman, a student and a gold prospector during the Klondike Gold Rush. These early experiences gave London a massive amount of material upon…