{"product_id":"frank-norris-remembered-jesse-s-crisler-9780817317959","title":"Frank Norris Remembered","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Norris Remembered \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eis a collection of reminiscences by Norris's contemporaries, friends, and family that illuminate the life of a popular American novelist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidering his undergraduate education spent studying art at \u003ci\u003eAcadémie Julian\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMoran of the Lady Letty\u003c\/i\u003e in 1898, \u003ci\u003eMcTeague\u003c\/i\u003e early in 1899, \u003ci\u003eBlix\u003c\/i\u003e later that year, \u003ci\u003eA Man's Woman\u003c\/i\u003e in February 1900, and \u003ci\u003eThe Octopus\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Pit\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVandover and the Brute, were published posthumously)\u003c\/i\u003e. The aim of \u003ci\u003eFrank Norris Remembered\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jesse S. Crisler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817317953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817317959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d","brand":"Jesse S. Crisler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096754135295,"sku":"9780817317959","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/frank-norris-remembered-jesse-s-crisler-9780817317959","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}