Frank Norris — American Novelist born on March 05, 1870, died on October 25, 1902

Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague, The Octopus: A Story of California, and The Pit... (wikipedia)

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.