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Frank Norris
is best remembered for his 1899 novel, McTeague, the sordid story of a
Polk Gulch dentist. Norris died in 1902 at the age of 32, but made his
mark with naturalistic novels influenced by the work of Emile Zola. In
his short but storied life, Norris studied art in Paris, attended Harvard
University for a year, worked in South Africa as a travel writer, and covered
the Spanish-American War in Cuba for McClure's. Norris' observations as
a journalist covering the local scene for The Wave between 1891-1898 provided
the writer with material for McTeague and his other San Francisco novels,
Blix, and Vandover and the Brute. The alley named in honor of Norris is
located off Larkin Street between Bush and Pine. McTeague became the basis
for Erich Von Stroheim's silent epic, Greed.
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