It has been updated. For years before a single blueprint was drawn, writer Jack London dreamed of his perfect house. Nestled amid the redwoods of Sonoma Valley, the 26-room mansion would wed ...

On July 14 of 1897, when news of the Klondike Gold Strike hit San Francisco and then echoed across the world, 21-year-old Jack London was working in military school steaming shirts ten hours a day.

An extremist, radical and searcher, Jack London was never destined to grow old. On November 22, 1916, London, author of The Call of the Wild, died at age 40. His short life was controversial and ...