Frank Norris: a life

Frank Norris's place in American cultural history

Antecedents

The Chicago years, 1870-85

The city by the bay

From out of the blue

The Académie Julian

Starting over

The short-story writer in the making at Berkeley

The nascent Zolaist at Harvard College

Adventuring upon life

The Jameson raid

The Wave journalist

Writing prose fiction for The Wave

The novelist at last at work

New York City at last

The rocking-chair war

With Norris at El Caney

From El Caney to San Juan Heights to Santiago

A quickening pace

"The wheat stuff is piling up B. I. G."

Professional advances and personal commitments

The enfant terrible no more

"Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein"

Farewell to Gotham

Crepuscule.