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Currently, Frank Norris is 154 years, 1 months and 24 days old. Frank Norris will celebrate 155rd birthday on a Wednesday 5th of March 2025. Below we countdown to Frank Norris upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Frank Norris |
Occupation | Novelist |
Age | years old |
Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
Born | March 5, 1870 (Chicago, IL) |
Birthday | March 5 |
Town/City | Chicago, IL |
Nationality | IL |
Frank Norris’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Frank Norris was born in the Year of the Horse. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Horse love to roam free. They’re energetic, self-reliant, money-wise, and they enjoy traveling, love and intimacy. They’re great at seducing, sharp-witted, impatient and sometimes seen as a drifter. Compatible with Dog or Tiger.
An American naturalist author, he is best known for works such as The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903). His 1899 work, McTeague, was adapted into both a film and an opera.
He studied painting for two years at the Academie Julian in Paris. Later, he attended both the University of California-Berkeley and Harvard University.
During the Spanish-American War, he worked in Cuba as a war correspondent for McClure's Magazine.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois to Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, an actress, and Benjamin Norris, a businessman. He and his wife, Jeannette Black, had a child in 1901.
His book, The Pit, inspired the short film, A Corner in Wheat, which was directed by DW Griffith.