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Frank Norris

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
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Frank Norris (Benjamin Franklin Norris), 1870-1902, American novelist, b. Chicago. After studying in Paris, at the Univ. of California (1890-94), and at Harvard, he spent several years as a war correspondent in South Africa (1895-96) and Cuba (1898). His proletarian novel McTeague (1899) was influenced by the experimental naturalism of Zola . His most impressive works were two parts of a proposed novelistic trilogy entitled "The Epic of Wheat" — The Octopus (1901), depicting the brutal struggle between wheat farmers and the railroad, and The Pit (1903), dealing with ...

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