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Norris, Frank: Frank Norris: A Life.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20060101
Author:Hanson, Victor Davis

Norris, Frank Frank Norris: A Life. Joseph R. McElrath Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 2005. 492 pp. $38.00.

"Norris dies unexpectedly of a ruptured appendix in 1902 at the age of 32, and the authors conclude that much of our existing information about his brief life is plain wrong. Norris destroyed much of his correspondence, and many archives were lost in the San Francisco earthquake. The sole biography of Norris, published in 1932, the authors argue, was flawed both in method and fact. In setting the record straight, the meticulous McElrath and Crisler ...

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