Frank Norris Remembered

"Frank Norris Remembered "is a collection of reminiscences by NorrisOCOs contemporaries, friends, and family that illuminate the life of one of AmericaOCOs most popular novelists.aConsidering his undergraduate education spent studying art at "Acad(r)mie Julian" in Paris and creative writing at Harvard and his journalism career reporting from the far reaches of South Africa and Cuba, it is difficult to fathom how Frank Norris also found time to compose seven novels during the course of his brief life. But despite his adventures abroad, Norris turned out novels at a dizzying pace. He published "Moran of the Lady Letty" in 1898, "McTeague" early in 1899, "Blix" later that year, "A ManOCOs Woman" in February 1900, and "The Octopus," the first in his ultimately unfinished OC Epic of the WheatOCO trilogy, in 1901. By informing his novels with his own experiences abroad, Norris composed works that were politically charged and culturally relevant and that made considerable contributions to the character of American literature in the twentieth century.aFrank Norris died at the age of thirty-two in 1902 from peritonitis resulting from a burst appendix, leaving behind a wife, a daughter, and an unfinished series of novels (two of which, "The Pit" and "Vandover and the Brute"," were published posthumously)." The aim of "Frank Norris Remembered," edited by Jesse S. Crisler and Joseph R. McElrath Jr., is to re-create the short, spectacular life of this American author through the eyes of those who knew him best. The fifty reminiscences included in this book feature the voices of Frank N. Doubleday; William Dean Howells; Hamlin Garland; NorrisOCOs wife, Jeannette; and many others who were lucky enough to form a relationship with this vital twentieth-century American author, artist, and adventurer. "