Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900

Stephen Crane was a novelist, poet, and journalst. He was born November 1, 1871, at 14 Mulberry Place, Newark, New Jersey. Crane is best known for his novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895) that depicted the experiences of a soldier in the Civil War. During the Spanish-American War (1898), Crame served as a correspondent. In 1897, he moved to England and met Joseph Conrad and Henry James. Crane died of tuberclosis in 1900.

Stephen Crane, American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, was born in Newark, NJ, Nov. 1. 1871. Crane attended Syracuse University briefly and began writing for newspapers in 1891 when he settled in New York City. At the age of 23, Crane wrote "Red Badge of Courage" which earned him international acclaim. After working as a reporter in the American West and Mexico, he moved to Jacksonville, Florida at the age of 27. Crane reported on the Greco-Turkish War and afterwards settled into a manor house at Brede Place, Sussex England. He later covered the Spanish-American War for the "New York World." Stephen Crane died in Badenweiler, Baden, Germany June 5, 1900.

American war-correspondent, novelist, story-writer and poet.

Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.

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Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist. Crane attended but did not graduate from Lafayette College and Syracuse University before moving to New York City where he worked as a freelance journalist and writer. His first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, was published in 1893, followed in 1895 by the novel for which he is best known, The Red Badge of Courage . The latter, about a young soldier's initiation into the horrors and ironies of war set during the American Civil War, won great acclaim for its vividness and psychological depth.

Crane and Cora Stewart-Taylor, who would become his wife, moved to Sussex, England in 1895. The two worked together as war correspondents during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, novelized in Crane's Active Service (1899) whose central character is a journalist covering the war. Crane died at age 28 of tuberculosis in Badenweiler, Baden, Germany.