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Frank Norris

About the Author

Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr., was born on March 5, 1870, in Chicago. Around 1896, Norris joined the staff of the weekly literary and general interest magazine the San Francisco Wave and integrated himself into the local literary community. Besides The Pit, which is part of “The Wheat Trilogy,” he is the author of McTeague.

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