London Jack London was admired by many and thought only to live his life to the fullest, by whatever means necessary. He was born in San Francisco, in 1876. He was deserted by his father, "Professor" William Henry Chaney, an itinerant astrologer, and raised in Oakland by his mother Flora Wellman, a music teacher and spiritualist. London's stepfather John London, whose surname he took, was a failed storekeeper. As a boy poverty struck the London family. …showed first 75 words of 1132 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1132 total…popular thought and London also incorporated this idea into his books. In The Son of the Wolf ,he wrote, "He thought of the tender women of his own race, and smiled grimly. Yet from the loins of some such tender woman had he sprung with a kingly inheritance...he felt the prompting of his heritage"(Pizer 532).London believed in the superiority of his own race "Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic races, represented for London, the superior" (Auerbach 136).