Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane was born in Newark in 1871, the fourteenth child of a Methodist minister. He attended two universities without taking a degree, lived in poverty in New York and published at his own expense, under a pseudonym, a first novel about a slum girl, which nobody bought. Sent to Cuba as a correspondent, he was shipwrecked off Florida in January 1897 and spent more than a day in a dinghy, then covered the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish-American War. Settled in England, a friend of Joseph Conrad and Henry James, pursued by debts, he died of tuberculosis in the Black Forest in 1900, at the age of twenty-eight.

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• NovelThe Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · 1895LiteraturePublic domain