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- Birth nameBenjamin Franklin Norris
- Frank Norris was born on March 5, 1870 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Greed (1924), Moran of the Lady Letty (1922) and Life's Whirlpool (1916). He was married to Jeanette Black. He died on October 25, 1902 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- SpouseJeanette Black(January 12, 1900 - October 25, 1902) (his death, 2 children)
- Turn-of-the-20th-century American author, whose starkly realistic works, too strong for readers of his time, are today acclaimed as classics ("McTeague," "The Octopus"). A handsome intellectual, of a wealthy family, his brilliant, promising career was cut off tragically when he died, aged only 32, of peritonitis following a burst appendix, leaving behind a wife and two small children.
- He and his wife Jeanette had their first child in 1901.
- His novel "The Pit" was published posthumously in 1903.
- Brother-in-law of novelist Kathleen Norris.
- I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth!
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