Frank Norris
Frank Norris (1870–1902) was born in Chicago, Illinois. A young student at the Académie Julian in Paris, Norris was exposed to naturalism in literature and became particularly fascinated in the study of human evolution. After years of working as a correspondent for various newspapers, Norris began his unfinished trilogy, the Epic of Wheat. The two completed titles—The OctopusandThe Pit—revealed the suffering caused by corrupt and greedy turn-of-the-century corporate monopolies. His death in...
