![]() His home, the Beauty Ranch, forms Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen, California. He wrote fifty books on extremely diverse subjects, including 198 short stories. Perhaps in part because of the psychological dualities of his childhood, London frequently attempted to conjoin opposites in his work, such as socialism and individualism, wanderlust and love of home, travel overseas and California ranching, Friedrich Nietzsche versus Karl Marx or Charles Darwin, racism versus brotherhood. Jack heard from a family member at age twenty-one that John was not his father. Flora married John London on 7 September of that year. On the night of London’s birth, 12 January 1876, Flora was very weak and was not able to nurse her boy, and he was given to a wet nurse, Virginia Prentiss, a former slave from Tennessee who had made her way to Oakland, California she had lost her baby that night. However, there is also evidence for the possibility that John London, who married Flora nine months after her child’s birth, was actually his father. ![]() 1916), was born into a turbulent bohemian world in San Francisco, the child of Flora Wellman and, she believed, her common-law husband, William Henry Chaney, an itinerant astrologer who deserted her. ![]() John Griffith Chaney, later Jack London (b. ![]()
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