Kudler, David

Jack Beritzhoff was born in Alameda, CA in 1918. He is a fourth-generation Californian, the descendent of a California pioneer. Jack served as a member of the United States Merchant Marine from 1942, at the height of World War II, to 1952, at the end of the Korean War. Since leaving his life at sea on a San Francisco pier over fifty years ago, he has lived in the Bay Area town of Mill Valley. He has three children and three grandchildren. Jack started writing at the age of ninety-one.