<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">You are cordially invited to join us for a virtual salon featuring Sonoma County’s Poet Laureate </div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="">Emerita</span><b class=""> Iris Dunkle </b><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">reading from her new book <span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b class="">“Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer”</b></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="5" class="">Sunday, December 6 at 3:00 PM</font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#222222" class="">This will be an excellent opportunity to meet one of Sonoma County’s finest writers and to learn about an extraordinary trailblazing woman.</font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#222222" class="">You can register at </font></span><a target="_blank" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsduqrpzgoHNfSRUMHjbW5mA9ca5HJ70J7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(14, 113, 235); text-decoration: none; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsduqrpzgoHNfSRUMHjbW5mA9ca5HJ70J7</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""></div></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Below is an excellent article about Iris and the book from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.</span></div></div></div></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""></div></div><div class=""></div></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="DE21F025-B9D1-4BE4-B5F2-88421E1DA699" class="" src="cid:75E75E32-B4CA-49AA-BD6D-F9C3CE451774@gateway.sonic.net"></div><div class=""><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><h1 class="bc-title" style="font-size: 2.4em; margin: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Slab", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal;">New book shows Jack London’s wife Charmian helped shape his works</h1><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="the-byline__authors the-byline__authors--single" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><div class="the-byline__authors__card"><div class="the-byline__authors__card--author" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.pressdemocrat.com/meg-mcconahey/" class="" style="transition: color 0.25s linear 0s, background-color 0.25s linear 0s; color: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">MEG MCCONAHEY</a></div><div class="the-byline__authors__card--attribution" style="text-transform: uppercase;">THE PRESS DEMOCRAT</div></div></div><div class="byline-lower" style="font-size: 0.925em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><div class="byline-pub-date" style="display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap;">November 9, 2020</div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="container" style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1200px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><div class="article-spacer" style="float: left; width: 1200px; margin-right: -350px;"><section class="article-content" style="max-width: 800px; margin-right: 332px;"><div class="story-content pw-section" data-pw-page="1"><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">There is an iconic photo of the writer Jack London, astride his horse in a meadow atop Sonoma Mountain. Reproduced everywhere, from book covers to promotions for trail rides, it is classic Jack. But who was up there on the mountain with him? The photographer was never credited.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">Local writer Iris Jamahl Dunkle wondered who took that photo, who perfectly framed the shot to capture the man and horse against a panoramic view of The Valley of the Moon about which he wrote so passionately. It was while researching Charmian London, Jack London’s wife, that Dunkle unlocked the mystery. She saw the picture in a small volume she bought off eBay, “Our Valley of the Moon in Poems and Pictures,” self-published by Nell Griffin Wilson in the early 1940s. By then a widow for more than 20 years, Charmian contributed that photo for the book, a photo she herself took.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">It’s the kind of nugget that thrills a researcher like Dunkle. The seemingly small discovery speaks to some of the many undisclosed truths about Charmian — that she was an accomplished photographer, writer and skillful editor in her own right and a thoroughly modern career woman at the dawn of the modern age. She also was, like so many women in history, somewhat lost in the long shadow of her husband.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">Dunkle’s new book, “Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer” (University of Oklahoma Press), is the first comprehensive full-length biography devoted solely to the other half of the early 20th century power couple. And it shows Charmian was far more than Jack’s wife.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">“They were intellectual equals,” said Dunkle, a poet, English instructor at Napa Valley College and a Jack London scholar. “He had this super-fast and interesting intellect, and she was right there with him. That’s something a lot of people don’t attribute to her.”</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Read the rest of the article here: <a href="https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/lifestyle/new-book-shows-charmian-london-as-daring-and-accomplished/" class="">https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/lifestyle/new-book-shows-charmian-london-as-daring-and-accomplished/</a></div></div></section></div></div></div></body></html>