Frank Norris | |
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 Portrait of Norris, by Arnold Genthe | |
| Born | Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. March 5, 1870 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | October 25, 1902 (aged 32) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Pen name | Justin Sturgis |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Notable works | McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, The Octopus: A Story of California |
| Spouse | Jeannette Black |
| Children | Jeannette 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).
- ^ Biencourt, Marius. Une Influence du Naturalisme Français en Amérique: Frank Norris, Giard, 1933.
- ^ Walcutt, Charles Child. American Literary Naturalism, a Divided Stream, University of Minnesota Press, 1956.
- ^ Chase, Richard Volney. "Norris and Naturalism." In The American Novel and its Tradition, Doubleday, 1957.
- ^ Pehowski, Marian Frances. Darwinism and the Naturalistic Novel: J. P. Jacobsen, Frank Norris and Shimazaki Tōson, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1973.
- ^ Civello, Paul. American Literary Naturalism and Its Twentieth-Century Transformations: Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, University of Georgia Press, 1994.