Frank Norris
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- Benjamin Franklin Norris (Frank Norris) was born in 1870 in Chicago Illinois.
- He was the first important naturalist writer in the U.S
- He studied painting in Paris for 2 years before deciding that he aspired to be a writer.
- He was also a news corespondent in South Africa.
- He was a war correspondent in Cuba for McClure's Magazine in 1898.
- McTeague
- His first important novel was McTeague. It was a naturalist work set in San Francisco about a brutal dentist who dies in Death Valley.
- His most important works, The Octopus and The Pit, were about the distribution and consumption of wheat.
- They also talked about the struggle of American wheat farmers going against monopolistic railroad corporations.
- After his death in 1902 at age 32, his novels gave many people insight on Californian life in the turn of the 20th century.
- His works were made into many plays and operas. They were also rewritten and McTeague was even turned into a film.
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