Every noteworthy American author he cited when arguing the point was known for a regional sensibility and a local-color focus in his fiction, and Norris was, of course, implying the same about himself. Five of his seven novels are situated in California, and his canon of approximately three hundred works repeatedly demonstrates how appropriate it is to view him as a self-conscious and deliberate regional writer. It was not until Norris was in his mid twenties that he focused on the American West as a subject matter he could develop as his own.
Frank Norris was born in Chicago on 5 March 1870, and whether there were any early indications of the course his life would take is moot because of a dearth of information about his youth. He produced no memoirs; after his death his mother and his younger brother, the novelist Charles G. Norris, offered few recollections of his childhood; even the fact that he attended the prestigious Harvard School shortly before the family moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1884 was not mentioned by any of his contemporaries.
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