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London and Orfans

Spiro Orfans (1886-1948)
A Greek immigrant, Spiro Orfans came to the U.S. in 1906. He admired Jack London and wrote him a letter that produced an invitation to the London’s Glen Ellen ranch in 1914. Jack’s book “The Mutiny of the Elsinore” prompted Spiro to protest Jack’s frequent use of white Anglo Saxon heroes in his plots. Their contentious correspondence is related here by Chuck Kensler as Jack London and Jim Passage as Spiro Orfans.