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Norris (FRANK American novelist born)

FRANK, American novelist; born at Chicago, Ill., March 5, 1870.

Studied art in Paris, 1887-1889; took special course at University of California and Harvard, 1890-1895; war correspondent for a San Francisco newspaper in South Africa at the time of the Jameson raid; editor of "The Wave," San Francisco, 1896-1897. His published works are: "Yberville" (1891); "Moran of the Lady Letty" (1898); "McTeague" (1899); "The Octopus," first of a trilogy, the epic of the wheat (1901); "Blix," and "A Man's Woman" (1900); "The Pit" (1903); "The Wolf," the last part of the trilogy, was left unfinished at the author's death in 1902. A volume of his short stories, "The Third Circle," was published in 1909.