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Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.

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The best work of Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (1870-1902), American novelist and critic, achieves a raw force that has won him an important place in the history of American fiction.Frank Norris was b... Read more

Frank Norris

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Biography EssayFrank Norris is a central figure in American literary history mainly because of three novels, McTeague (1899), The Octopus (1901), and The Pit (1903). But he is also important beca... Read more

Frank Norris

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Although he died less than five years after publishing his first novel, Frank Norris stands as one of the key figures of early twentieth-century American literature. In novels such as McTeague: A Stor... Read more

(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris, (Jr.)

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Frank Norris is a central figure in American literary history mainly because of three novels, McTeague (1899), The Octopus (1901), and The Pit (1903). But he is also important because of what he indic... Read more

(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris, (Jr.)

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Frank Norris has been viewed as a significant literary critic in one major way. His principal and quite specific image for most has been that of a spokesman for the literary movement which first devel... Read more

(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris, (Jr.)

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Frank Norris is known principally as an American novelist rather than a western one. He was perceived as a national artist by the majority of his contemporaries, and at the time of his early death in ... Read more

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