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Frank Norris

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Oct 25, 1902
Zodiac
Pisces
Born in
Chicago IL
About
An American naturalist author, he is best known for works such as The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903). His 1899 work, McTeague, was adapted into both a film and an opera.
Family
He was born in Chicago, Illinois to Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, an actress, and Benjamin Norris, a businessman. He and his wife, Jeannette Black, had a child in 1901.

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