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  <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include &lt;i&gt;McTeague&lt;/i&gt; (1899), &lt;i&gt;The Octopus: A California Story&lt;/i&gt; (1901), and &lt;i&gt;The Pit&lt;/i&gt; (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 was particularly influenced by an optimistic strand of Darwinist philosophy taught by Joseph LeConte, whom Norris studied under while at the University of California, Berkeley. Through many of his novels, notably &lt;i&gt;McTeague&lt;/i&gt;, runs a preoccupation with the notion of the civilized man overcoming the inner &quot;brute,&quot; his animalistic tendencies. His peculiar, and often confused, brand of Social Darwinism also bears the influence of the early criminologist Cesare Lombroso and the French naturalist Emile Zola.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Thomas Henry Huxley, Joseph LeConte]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Chicago, Illinois</hometown>  <born_at>03/05/1870</born_at>  <died_at>10/25/1902</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[McTeague]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.60</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>648</ratings_count>
  <published>1899</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Octopus: A Story of California]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.63</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>211</ratings_count>
  <published>1901</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Pit: A Story Of Chicago]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>42</ratings_count>
  <published>1903</published>  
  
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        <book id="609599">
  <title><![CDATA[Vandover and the Brute]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.62</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>26</ratings_count>
  <published>1914</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Norris: Novels and Essays]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.91</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>11</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
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        <book id="4011331">
  <title><![CDATA[Blix]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <published>2003</published>  
  
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        <book id="347016">
  <title><![CDATA[A Deal in Wheat: And Other Stories of the New and Old West]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <published>1970</published>  
  
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        <book id="2531101">
  <title><![CDATA[Moran of the Lady Letty: [EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition]]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <published>1971</published>  
  
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        <book id="7165398">
  <title><![CDATA[The Octopus: A Story of California]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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  <published>1964</published>  
  
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        <book id="7020161">
  <title><![CDATA[Blix]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Norris]]></name>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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