Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Frank Norris
Born: March 5, 1870
Died: October 25, 1902 (aged 32)
Bio: Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague, The Octopus: A Story of California, and The Pit.
Known for:
- McTeague (1899)
- The Octopus: A Story of California (1901)
- The Pit
- Vandover and the Brute