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100 1 $aMcElrath, Joseph R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79145245
245 10 $aFrank Norris :$ba life /$cJoseph R. McElrath, Jr., Jesse S. Crisler.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axxii, 492 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [433]-469) and index.
520 1 $a"Born in Chicago in 1870, Frank Norris led a life of adventure and art. He moved to San Francisco at fifteen, spent two years in Paris painting, and returned to San Francisco to become an internationally famous author. He died at age thirty-two from a ruptured appendix. During his short life, he wrote an inspired series of novels about the United States coming of age. The Octopus was a prescient warning about the threat of monopolies, and The Pit exposed the intrigues and dirty dealings at the Chicago grain exchange. Extensively reprinted, Norris's works have also found their way into popular consciousness through film (Erich von Stroheim's Greed), and even an opera, McTeague, based on his portrait of the huge, dumb, and murderous dentist." "Interest in this dynamic writer was wide and sustained, but Frank Norris and his family did biographers no favors. Norris burned most of his correspondence, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire devoured more, and his brother and widow dispersed his surviving papers as gifts. As a result, it was thought impossible to assemble enough material to surpass the single existing biography, published in 1932. Authors Joseph R. McElrath Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler, acknowledged as the leading experts on Norris, have spent over thirty years overcoming these obstacles, devotedly amassing the material necessary to at last fashion a truly full-scale portrait of the artist. This is the first complete biography of this centrally important American novelist to appear in seventy years, and anyone familiar with the breezier existing accounts of the man and hungering for the real story will agree that Frank Norris, A Life was worth the wait."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aNorris, Frank,$d1870-1902.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80032817
650 0 $aNovelists, American$y19th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108452
700 1 $aCrisler, Jesse S.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86113650
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005007105.html
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