Chuck Gilman Norris was a U.S. novelist.

He was the brother of novelist Frank Norris

Frank Norris

Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague , The Octopus: A Story of California , and The Pit .-Life:Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1870...

, and the husband of author Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris

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. A native of Chicago

Chicago

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, Norris worked as a journalist for some years before finding success as a novelist and playwright. His first book was The Amateur 1916. His other novels include Brass: A Novel of Marriage 1921, Bread 1923, Pig Iron 1926, Seed: A Novel of Birth Control 1930, Zest 1933, Hands 1935, and Flint 1944. Norris was well respected by his literary peers. In a letter to Alida Bigelow dated 9/23/1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 advised the young woman to "read "Salt" young girl so that you may know what life B." (spelling is that of Fitzgerald) . The Oxford Companion to American Literature notes that Norris' novels dealt with "such problems as modern education, women in business, hereditary and environmental influences, big business, ethics and birth control

Birth control

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." He also published three plays: The Rout of the Philistines (with Nino Marcelli

Nino Marcelli

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, 1922), A Gest of Robin Hood (with Robert C. Newell, 1929), and Ivanhoe: A Grove Play 1936.

His granddaughter Kathleen Norris (San Francisco 1 Mar 1935-San Francisco 8 Dec 1967) was a wife of Prince Andrew Romanov

Prince Andrew Romanov

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 (b.London 21 Jan 1923).

Novels and short stories

• Marriage; Short Stories of Married life by American Writers, Tarkington, Cutting, Hergesheimer, Miller, Street, Delano, Norris, Gale, Harrison, Kelland, Hopper, Adams, Butler, Foster, Hughes, Dreiser, Cooper, Turner, Webster, Lincoln. Garden City, N. Y.,: Doubleday Page, 1923.
• Bread. N.Y: Dutton, 1923.
• Pig Iron. N.Y: E. P. Dutton, 1926.
• Zelda Marsh. N.Y.: E.P. Dutton, 1927.
• Seed, A Novel of Birth Control. Garden City, N.Y.,: Doubleday Doran, 1930.
• Zest. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday Doran, 1933.
• Hands. New York,: Farrar & Rinehart
  Farrar & Rinehart
  Farrar & Rinehart was a United States book publishing company founded in New York. Farrar & Rinehart enjoyed success with both nonfiction and novels, notably, the landmark Rivers of America Series and the first ten books in the Nero Wolfe corpus of Rex Stout...
  
  , 1935.
• Bricks Without Straw. N.Y.: Doubleday Doran, 1938.
• Flint. Garden City, New York.: Doubleday Doran, 1944.

Books by Charles Norris in Theodore Dreiser's library

• John Rossiter's Wife

Plays

• Norris, Charles Gilman, Robert C. Newell, and Bohemian Club. A Gest of Robin Hood. San Francisco,: Bohemian Club, 1929.
• Norris, Charles Gilman, Walter Scott, and Calif. Bohemian Club (San Francisco). Ivanhoe: A Grove Play. San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1936.

Works on Frank Norris

• Norris, Frank. A Deal in Wheat, and Other Stories of the New and Old West. New York,: Doubleday Page, 1903.
• Norris, Frank, and Charles Gilman Norris (introd.). The Octopus : A Story of California. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday Page & Co., 1924.
• Norris, Frank, and Charles Gilman Norris. The Third Circle. New York,: J. Lane Company, 1909.
• Norris, Charles Gilman. Frank Norris, 1870–1902; An Intimate Sketch of the Man who was Universally Acclaimed the Greatest American Writer of His Generation. New York,: Doubleday Page, 1914.
• Norris, Frank, Oscar Lewis, and Charles Gilman Norris. Frank Norris of "the Wave": Stories & Sketches from the San Francisco Weekly, 1893 to 1897. San Francisco,: The Westgate Press, 1931.

External links

• Guide to the Norris Family Papers at The Bancroft Library
• Portrait Photograph @ Online Archive of California