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See also:NORRIS, See also:FRANK (1870—1902) , See also:American novelist, was See also:born in See also:Chicago, See also:Illinois, on the 5th of See also:March 187o. He studied See also:art in See also:Paris in 1887—1889; studied at the University of See also:California (1890—1894), and at Harvard University (1894—1895); in 1895—1896 served in See also:South See also:Africa as See also:war correspondent for the See also:San Francisco See also:Chronicle; in 1896—1897 was See also:associate editor of the San Francisco See also:Wave; and in 1898 was sent to See also:Cuba as war correspondent for McClure's See also:Magazine. He died in San Francisco on the 25th of See also:October 1902. He wrote A See also:Deal in See also:Wheat, and Other Stories (1903), Responsibilities of the Novelist, and Other See also:Literary Essays (1903), and the following novels: See also:Moran of the See also:Lady Letty (1898), a See also:story of See also:adventure off the California See also:coast; McTeague (1899), a story of the San Francisco slums; Blix (1899), a love story; A See also:Man's Woman (woo); The See also:Octopus (1901) and The See also:- PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)
Pit (1903). The last two were powerful stories, which made his reputation. The Octopus deals with wheat-raising in California and with the struggle between the growers and the railroad See also:trust; The Pit with wheat-See also:speculation in the Chicago See also:market. His See also:complete See also:works were published in seven volumes in 1903.
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