John Griffith “Jack” London (1876 – 1916)
	
Jack London was born in San Francisco to Flora Wellman. He completed grade school on Oakland and attended the University of California, Berkeley. Rejected by a man he believed was his father, and in financial difficulty, London quit school and travelled to the Yukon in 1897. London stayed for a year, and was an unsuccessful miner on Henderson Creek before a bout of scurvy forced him to leave the creek.((“Jack London Museum.” 2018 website: http://jacklondonmuseum.ca/))
	
The Jack London Museum in Dawson has half of the Yukon home that London lived in on the North Fork of Henderson Creek, a tributary of the Stewart River. The other half of the cabin is in Jack London Square in Oakland, California.((“Jack London Museum.” 2018 website: http://jacklondonmuseum.ca/))
	
London became a novelist, journalist, and a social activist. He was a pioneer in commercial magazine fiction and among the first writers to become an international celebrity. Some of his best-known works were set in the north: //The Call of the Wild, White Fang, “To Build a Fire,” “An Odyssey of the North,”// and //“Love of Life.”// He also wrote about the South Pacific and the San Francisco Bay area. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction works on the rights of workers.((“Jack London.” //Wikipedia.// 2018 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London.))