Frank Norris remembered / edited by Jesse S. Crisler and Joseph R. McElrath Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crisler, Jesse S.

McElrath, Joseph R.

Series:

American Writers Remembered

American writers remembered

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Novelists, American--19th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Norris, Frank, 1870-1902.

Norris, Frank.

Norris, Frank, 1870-1902--Friends and associates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Frank Norris Remembered is a collection of reminiscences by Norris's contemporaries, friends, and family that illuminate the life of one of America's most popular novelists. Considering his undergraduate education spent studying art at Académie 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

Contents:

pt. 1. Childhood and youth : Chicago, San Francisco, and Paris, 1870-90

pt. 2. College years : Berkeley and Cambridge, 1890-1895

pt. 3. Apprenticeship : San Francisco and South Africa, 1895-1898

pt. 4. Professional years : New York, Cuba, Chicago, and San Francisco, 1898-1902.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8672-6

OCLC:

850078953