Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American author. His works include Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), The Red Badge of Courage (1895), The Black Riders (1895), The Open Boat (1898), and "The Monster" (1899).[1]

## Contents

* 1 Life and Works
* 2 Other
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Life and Works[edit]

He was born on November 1, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey, to a Methodist minister and a writer, though he was raised by his older sister Agnes. He studied at Claverack College, Lafayette College, and Easton University and got a job with the New York Times.[2] He published his first book, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets under the pseudonym Johnson Smith, to avoid backlash in its depictions of promiscuity and other unnecessary controversy.[3] Crane's best-known novel, The Red Badge of Courage, he wrote as an impressionistic novel of a Civil War soldier called Henry Fleming who desires a battle would to mask his pusillanimity in fleeing from a battle.[4] He later published his poetry in The Black Rider and his short stories in The Monster and Other Stories,[5] including the frequently anthologized "The Open Boat", "The Blue Hotel", and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky".[6]

After it made him famous, he continued as a reporter of the Spanish-American War and the Greco-Turkish War. He married a Cora Taylor and became financially ruined in England.[7] He died of tuberculosis at age 29.[8]

## Other[edit]

Stephen Crane appears on the cover of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[9]

## See also[edit]

* H. G. Wells
* Joseph Conrad

## References[edit]

1. ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall: New York, 1993.
2. ↑ http://www.biography.com/people/stephen-crane-9260647#early-years
3. ↑ http://www.online-literature.com/crane/
4. ↑ https://americanliterature.com/author/stephen-crane/bio-books-stories
5. ↑ http://www.online-literature.com/crane/
6. ↑ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/stephen-crane
7. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Crane
8. ↑ https://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/crane.html
9. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/books/review/stephen-crane-a-life-of-fire-by-paul-sorrentino.html?_r=0

## External links[edit]

* Biography and Poems at the Poetry Foundation website