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Biography of Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.
Name: Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.
Birth Date: May 5, 1870
Death Date: October 25, 1902
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, critic
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.
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 born in Chicago on Mar. 5, 1870, the son of a wealthy jeweler. When Frank was 14, the family moved into a mansion in San Francisco. This house would be the model for the mansion in Norris's novel The Pit (1903), which also presents a portrait of his mother in the character of Laura.Education and Early WritingsAfter a short time in high school, Norris left to study at the San Francisco Art Association. His family, even his no-nonsense father, encouraged him; in fact, they moved to London and then to Paris in 1887 so that he could study painting. Norris enjoyed painting, but after 2 years he returned to San Francisco and in 1890 entered the University of California. He remained for 4 years but …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…proved to be appendicitis, and he died on Oct. 25, 1902. The Pit, serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, appeared as a book in 1903, the same year that saw the publication of A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories and a collection of his critical essays, The Responsibilities of a Novelist. Associated Works McTeague (Book) Further Reading A reliable biography of Norris is Franklin Walker, Frank Norris (1932). Warren French, Frank Norris (1962), provides a biographical sketch and an analysis of his works. Donald Pizer, The Novels of Frank Norris (1966), is thorough and scholarly, and his edition of The Literary Criticism of Frank Norris (1964) presents valuable material not available elsewhere. There are excellent sections on Norris in Warner Berthoff, The Ferment of Realism (1965), and Larzer Ziff, The American 1890s (1966).Norris, Charles Gilman, Frank Norris, 1870-1902: an intimate sketch of the man who was universally acclaimed the greatest American writer of his generation, Philadelphia: R. West, 1977.
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