J. Frank Norris (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Franklyn Norris (September 18, 1877 - August 20, 1952) was a flamboyant Baptist preacher, one of the most controversial figures in the history of fundamentalism. J. Frank Norris was born in Dadeville, Alabama, but the family shortly moved to Arkansas and then back to Columbiana, Alabama. In the late 1880s, the Norrises bought land near Hubbard, Texas, about thirty miles from Waco, where they farmed. James Warner Norris was an alcoholic, and Frank Norris claimed that his father once severely injured him after he had emptied his liquor bottles. In 1891, both were shot by an acquaintance of Warner Norris, and Frank said he did not fully recuperate for three years.