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4 unusual facts about Frank Norris


Benjamin Norris

Frank Norris (1870-1902), Benjamin Franklin Norris, American novelist writing predominantly in the naturalist genre

Chicago Board of Trade

The Pit is also the title and subject of a classic novel (1903) by Frank Norris.

Chicago literature

Frank Norris's The Pit is a novel of greed and life on the early 20th century trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.

Lorin District, Berkeley, California

Lorin is mentioned and is the setting for one scene in former University of California student Frank Norris' book The Octopus (1903).


Arena Publishing Co.

The journal featured articles and essays by the company's authors, like Garland and Schindler, plus early work by Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Upton Sinclair.

Montgomery Block

Its tenants included artists and writers of all kind and it also hosted many illustrious visitors, among them Jack London, George Sterling, Lola Montez, Lotta Crabtree, Gelett Burgess, Maynard Dixon, Frank Norris, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, the Booths and Mark Twain.


see also

Life's Whirlpool

This film shouldn't be confused with McTeague which was also known as Life's a Whirlpool, an early telling of Frank Norris's McTeague, later filmed by Eric von Stroheim as Greed (1923).