(Benjamin Franklin) (1870-1902) US novelist. A naturalist writer, he wrote McTeague 1899, about a brutish San Francisco dentist and the love of gold (filmed as Greed 1923). He completed only two parts of his projected trilogy, the Epic of Wheat: The Octopus 1901, dealing with the struggles between wheat farmers, and The Pit 1903, describing the Chicago wheat exchange. + prikaži više