[Falconspeed]

Thank you for the Jack London information. Very interesting. The bar where he did his homework during grammar school is located in Jack London Square near the Oakland train station.

Thanks for the link to the nice park.

Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and Bret Harte are three wonderful authors connected to the Bay Area. I am thankful for Libri Vox recordings and yes, the scenery in Napa Valley is spectacular.

[Verginius Rufus]

A more recent writer associated with the Bay Area was Czeslaw Milosz, who won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature, but he was born in Poland. I once saw him walking down a sidewalk in Berkeley, but did not venture to engage him in conversation.

Mark Twain spent some time in the Bay Area as well.