Novelist Frank Norris

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Novelist

Frank Norris

Living place: Chicago

Birthday: 5-3-1870

Global rank: #61181

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Who is Novelist Frank Norris?
An American naturalist author, he is best known for such works 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.
In Spanish-American, he worked in Cuba as a war correspondent for McClure magazine.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied drawing for two years at the Academie Julian in Paris. He later attended both the University of California-Berkeley and Harvard University.

Family life info

He was born in Chicago, Illinois to Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, an actress, and Benjamin Norris, a businessman. He and his wife, Black Jeannette, had one child in 1901.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Frank Norris?
His book, The Pit, inspired the short film, A Corner in the Wheat, which was directed by DW Griffith.

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When was Novelist Frank Norris born?
Frank Norris was born in 5-3-1870, death year is , at the age of 154.
Where is Novelist Frank Norris's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois- United States. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Pisces, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Frank Norris's global rank is 61181 and whose rank is 556 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1870 and 5-3

Birthday Frank Norris (5-3) in history

  • Day 5-3 year 1770: The Boston Massacre was a pre-Revolutionary incident that arose from anger towards the British army, and five anti-British rioters were killed.
  • Day 5-3 year 1933: In the last free elections in Germany until after World War II, the Nazi Party received 44% of the vote.
  • Day 5-3 year 1946: Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron curtain speech, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent."
  • Day 5-3 year 1953: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.
  • Day 5-3 year 1963: Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash.
  • Day 5-3 year 1997: North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.
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