Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. “I ride out of my beautiful ranch,” London wrote. Originally, the land was the site of Jack London’s Beauty Ranch, where the author earnestly pursued his interests in scientific farming and animal husbandry. The 1,400-acre Jack London State Historic Park lies in the heart of Sonoma Valley wine country, some 60 miles north of San Francisco in Glen Ellen, California. In his fictional universe, lone wolves die and abusive alpha males never win out in the end. Notably, London's stories endorsed reciprocation, cooperation, adaptability and grit. And he had the ace setting of the “Last Frontier” in Alaska and the Klondike-a strong draw for American readers, who were prone to creative nostalgia. The style needed to be direct and robust and vivid. With a keen eye and an innate sense, London recognized that the country’s growing readership was ready for a different kind of writing. With his thirst for adventure, his rags-to-riches success story, and his progressive political ideas, London’s stories mirrored the passing of the American frontier and the nation’s transformation into an urban-industrial global power. London's life embodied the frenzied modernization of America between the Civil War and World War I. His short life was controversial and contradictory.īorn in 1876, the year of Little Bighorn and Custer’s Last Stand, the prolific writer would die in the year John T. On November 22, 1916, London, author of The Call of the Wild, died at age 40.
An extremist, radical and searcher, Jack London was never destined to grow old.
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