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He joined the New York City publishing firm of Doubleday & Page in 1899. During his time at the University of California, Berkeley, Norris was a brother in the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta [9] [10] [11] and was an originator of the Skull & Keys society. [12]
Frank Norris (born March 5, 1870, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died October 25, 1902, San Francisco, California) was an American novelist who was the first important naturalist writer in the United States. Norris studied painting in Paris for two years but then decided that literature was his vocation.
Notable work (s) The Epic of Wheat (unfinished) Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and The Pit (1903).
Jan 1, 2006 · The American novelist Frank Norris was a universally well-liked person with an inextinguishable joie de vivre, a fine sense of humor, a gift for maintaining long-term friendships, and a degree...
Frank Norris (1870 - 1902), born in Chicago, was an American journalist, novelist, and a leader in the Naturalist movement. He believed novels should confront morality: " The novel with a purpose brings the tragedies and griefs of others to notice and proves that injustice, crime, and inequality do exist.
Norris puts his theory of naturalism into practice in his novel McTeague, crafting a titular protagonist a “poor crude dentist of Polk Street, stupid, ignorant, vulgar” with “enormous bones and corded muscles” who is more animal than man.
Norris produced a theory of naturalism in his critical essays, seeking to distinguish it from both American realism, which he condemned as too focused on the manners of middle-class society, and historical “cut and thrust” romances, which he saw as merely escapist entertainment.
