Frank Norris

Frank Norris
Portrait of Norris, by Arnold Genthe
Portrait of Norris, by Arnold Genthe
BornBenjamin Franklin Norris Jr.
(1870-03-05)March 5, 1870
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedOctober 25, 1902(1902-10-25) (aged 32)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Pen nameJustin Sturgis
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Notable worksMcTeague: A Story of San Francisco, The Octopus: A Story of California
SpouseJeannette Black
ChildrenJeannette Williamson Norris
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Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre.[1][2][3][4][5] His notable works include McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903).

  1. ^ Biencourt, Marius. Une Influence du Naturalisme Français en Amérique: Frank Norris, Giard, 1933.
  2. ^ Walcutt, Charles Child. American Literary Naturalism, a Divided Stream, University of Minnesota Press, 1956.
  3. ^ Chase, Richard Volney. "Norris and Naturalism." In The American Novel and its Tradition, Doubleday, 1957.
  4. ^ Pehowski, Marian Frances. Darwinism and the Naturalistic Novel: J. P. Jacobsen, Frank Norris and Shimazaki Tōson, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1973.
  5. ^ Civello, Paul. American Literary Naturalism and Its Twentieth-Century Transformations: Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, University of Georgia Press, 1994.

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