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Jack London, famous writer, was born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876 but was raised in Oakland. Here he obtained his grammar and high school education and one year of college at the University of California in Berkeley. Although his writings reflect the background of the sea and the Orient, many of them have Oakland and its waterfront as their setting. He was influenced greatly as a youth by Ina Coolbrith, Librarian of the Oakland Public Library. He died on November 22, 1916. Bbiliography: The Beginnings of Oakland, California A.U.C. by Peter Thomas Conmy; Oakland Public Library, 1961. The ruins of Jack London's farm, ca. 1920. a. Photograph of (Jack London's farm) Wolf House, 1920, just after it burned. $2.00