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Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1870 , and moved to San Francisco at the age of fourteen. He later became a member of San Francisco's artistic Bohemian Club , which included such literary notables as Jack London and Ambrose Bierce . He studied painting in Paris for two years, where he was exposed to the naturalist novels of Emile Zola . He attended the University Of California, Berkeley between 1890 and 1894 and then spent a (reputedly dissolute) year at Harvard University . While attending U of C was a member of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta. He worked as a news correspondent in South Africa in 1895 – 96 , and then an editorial assistant on the ''San Francisco Wave'' (1896– 97 ). He worked for '' McClure's Magazine '' as a war correspondent in Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898 . He joined the New York City publishing firm of Doubleday & Page in 1899 . In 1900 Frank Norris married Jeanette Black. They had a child in 1901. Norris died in 1902 of Peritonitis from a ruptured Appendix , leaving his young wife and baby and leaving ''The Epic of Wheat'' trilogy unfinished. He was only 32. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California . Norris' ''McTeague'' was made into a 1924 film called '' Greed '' by director Erich Von Stroheim , which is today considered a classic of Silent Cinema . {Link without Title} BIBLIOGRAPHY
The ''San Francisco'' trilogy:
''The Epic of Wheat'' trilogy:
REFERENCES Hochman, Barbara. ''The Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller'' University of Missouri Press (1988) ISBN 0826206638 McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. and Crisler, Jesse S. ''Frank Norris: A Life'', University of Illinois Press (2006) ISBN 0252030168 (the definitive biography of Norris) EXTERNAL LINKS |
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