Frank Norris

Norris, Frank (Benjamin Franklin Norris; 1870–1902), U.S. novelist and newspaper columnist. His best-known novels are McTeague (1899), a naturalist account of life in San Francisco slums, and his 2 exposés of the railroad and wheat industries, The Octopus (1901) and The Pit (1903). These were part of an uncompleted trilogy entitled The Epic of Wheat.