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Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870. [6] His father, Benjamin, was a self-made Chicago businessman and his mother, Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, had a stage career. In 1884 the family moved to San Francisco where Benjamin went into real estat
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, otherwise known as simply McTeague, is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899.It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West is a collection of short stories written by the American author Frank Norris. It was published posthumously in 1903 by Doubleday, Page & Company and composed primarily of recently published works.
Norris planned for the conclusion to revolve around the consumption of wheat in a part of Europe experiencing a famine. Though he had decided on the title and some general ideas, he did not begin work in earnest before he died unexpectedly in October, 1902 from peritonitis , leaving his proposed third book of the trilogy, The Wolf: A Story of ...
Following the release and subsequent success of Norris' 1899 McTeague, he began searching for an idea for his next project.Within a few weeks he had formulated his idea for a trilogy of novels on the topic of wheat, his 'Epic of the Wheat', from its growth in California (which would be the basis of The Octopus), to its distribution in Chicago (The Pit, published posthumously in 1903), to its ...
The Pit: A Story of Chicago is a 1903 novel by Frank Norris.Set in the wheat speculation trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building, it was the second book in what was to be the trilogy The Epic of the Wheat.
John Franklyn Norris, more commonly known as J. Frank Norris (September 18, 1877 – August 20, 1952) was a Baptist preacher and controversial Christian fundamentalist.
A Man's Woman is an adventure novel by Frank Norris written in the year 1900. [1] It is a story that primarily follows two characters, Bennett and Lloyd, and the unlikely love that blossoms between them. [2]