Frank Norris Remembered
304 pages, 6 x 9
4 illustrations
Hardcover
Release Date:31 May 2013
ISBN:9780817317959
Frank Norris Remembered
Edited by Jesse S. Crisler and Joseph R. McElrath
SERIES:
American Writers Remembered
University of Alabama Press
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 a dizzying pace. He published Moran of the Lady Letty in 1898, McTeague early in 1899, Blix later that year, A Man’s Woman in February 1900, and The Octopus, the first in his ultimately unfinished “Epic of the Wheat” trilogy, in 1901. By informing his novels with his own experiences abroad, Norris composed works that were politically charged and culturally relevant and that made considerable contributions to the character of American literature in the twentieth century.
Frank Norris died at the age of thirty-two in 1902 from peritonitis resulting from a burst appendix, leaving behind a wife, a daughter, and an unfinished series of novels (two of which, The Pit and Vandover and the Brute, were published posthumously). The aim of Frank Norris Remembered, edited by Jesse S. Crisler and Joseph R. McElrath Jr., is to re-create the short, spectacular life of this American author through the eyes of those who knew him best. The fifty reminiscences included in this book feature the voices of Frank N. Doubleday; William Dean Howells; Hamlin Garland; Norris’s wife, Jeannette; and many others who were lucky enough to form a relationship with this vital twentieth-century American author, artist, and adventurer.
Jesse S. Crisler and Joseph R. McElrath Jr. are the coauthors of Frank Norris: A Life and the coeditors of An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906<n>1932 and Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches (both with Robert C. Leitz III), among other works.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction 1
Part 1. Childhood and Youth: Chicago, San Francisco, and Paris, 1870<n>90
1. Philip King Brown
2. Louis W. Neustadter
3. Charles G. Norris
4. Ernest C. Peixotto
5. M. C. Sloss
Part 2. College Years: Berkeley and Cambridge, 1890<n>95
6. Thomas R. Bacon
7. Louis Bartlett
8. Gelett Burgess
9. Eleanor M. Davenport
10. Stanly A. Easton
11. George C. Edwards
12. Wallace W. Everett
13. George Gibbs
14. Ralph L. Hathorn
15. Albert J. Houston
16. H. Hull McClaughry
17. Ariana Moore
18. Jessica B. Peixotto
19. Harry W. Rhodes
20. Leon J. Richardson
21. Maurice V. Samuels
22. Edward A. Selfridge Jr.
23. Frank M. Todd
24. Seymour Waterhouse
25. Benjamin Weed
26. Harry M. Wright
Part 3. Apprenticeship: San Francisco and South Africa, 1895<n>98
27. John O. Cosgrave
28. Porter Garnett
29. Will Irwin
30. Bailey Millard
31. Jeannette Norris
32. Bruce Porter
33. Bertha Rickoff
Part 4. Professional Years: New York, Cuba, Chicago, and San Francisco, 1898<n>1902
34. James F. J. Archibald
35. Raine Bennett
36. Dulce Bolado Davis
37. Frank N. Doubleday
38. Hamlin Garland
39. Arthur Goodrich
40. Julie A. Herne
41. William Dean Howells
42. Henry W. Lanier
43. Edwin Lefevre
44. Isaac F. Marcosson
45. George D. Moulson
46. John S. Phillips
47. W. S. Rainsford
48. Grant Richards
49. Elizabeth Knight Tompkins
50. Juliet Wilbor Tompkins
List of Reminiscences
Additional Reminiscences
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction 1
Part 1. Childhood and Youth: Chicago, San Francisco, and Paris, 1870<n>90
1. Philip King Brown
2. Louis W. Neustadter
3. Charles G. Norris
4. Ernest C. Peixotto
5. M. C. Sloss
Part 2. College Years: Berkeley and Cambridge, 1890<n>95
6. Thomas R. Bacon
7. Louis Bartlett
8. Gelett Burgess
9. Eleanor M. Davenport
10. Stanly A. Easton
11. George C. Edwards
12. Wallace W. Everett
13. George Gibbs
14. Ralph L. Hathorn
15. Albert J. Houston
16. H. Hull McClaughry
17. Ariana Moore
18. Jessica B. Peixotto
19. Harry W. Rhodes
20. Leon J. Richardson
21. Maurice V. Samuels
22. Edward A. Selfridge Jr.
23. Frank M. Todd
24. Seymour Waterhouse
25. Benjamin Weed
26. Harry M. Wright
Part 3. Apprenticeship: San Francisco and South Africa, 1895<n>98
27. John O. Cosgrave
28. Porter Garnett
29. Will Irwin
30. Bailey Millard
31. Jeannette Norris
32. Bruce Porter
33. Bertha Rickoff
Part 4. Professional Years: New York, Cuba, Chicago, and San Francisco, 1898<n>1902
34. James F. J. Archibald
35. Raine Bennett
36. Dulce Bolado Davis
37. Frank N. Doubleday
38. Hamlin Garland
39. Arthur Goodrich
40. Julie A. Herne
41. William Dean Howells
42. Henry W. Lanier
43. Edwin Lefevre
44. Isaac F. Marcosson
45. George D. Moulson
46. John S. Phillips
47. W. S. Rainsford
48. Grant Richards
49. Elizabeth Knight Tompkins
50. Juliet Wilbor Tompkins
List of Reminiscences
Additional Reminiscences
Notes
Works Cited
Index
