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The Columbia History of the American NovelFrank Norris (1870–1902) He was born Benjamin Franklin Norris in Chicago. In 1884 the family moved to San Francisco, and when he was seventeen his father took him to Paris to study painting. From 1890 to 1894 he attended the University of California, then Harvard for one year, after which he worked as correspondent for Collier's and the San Francisco Chronicle, covering the Boer War. Upon his return from South Africa he worked for a San Francisco magazine, The Wave, which serialized his first novel, Moran of the Lady Letty, in 1898. That same year he went to Cuba to cover the Spanish-American War. When he returned the following year he took a position with Doubleday, which in 1899 published two of Norris's novels, McTeague, set in San Francisco, and Blix. I (1901) and The Pit (1903) were the first two volumes in a planned trilogy following the growing, selling, and dis-797- tribution of California wheat. The final volume, The Wolf, was incomplete at Norris's death from a ruptured appendix in 1902 Joyce Carol Oates (1938-) Born in upstate New York, Oates studied at Syracuse University and at the University of Wisconsin ...» |
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