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Norris, Frank
(Nor·ris, Frank)
Entry from US Dictionary
Pronunciation:
/ˈnôris/
(
1870–1902
)
, US journalist and writer; full name Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. His fiction includes
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
(1899) and
The Octopus
(1901). His unfinished trilogy
Epic of Wheat
documents the history of muckraking.
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