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Benjamin
Franklin Norris, Jr. (1870 – 1902) was an
American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly
in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague
(1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and
The Pit (1903).
Although
he did not openly support socialism as a political system,
his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced
socialist/progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like
many of his contemporaries, he was profoundly influenced by
the advent of Darwinism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's philosophical
defense of it.
Norris
died in San Francisco in 1902 of peritonitis from a ruptured
appendix.
Source
- Wikipedia
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