Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane was born in 1871 in Newark, New Jersey, the fourteenth child of a Methodist minister. He began writing at four and had published several articles by sixteen. He attended Lafayette College and Syracuse University, where he played baseball and rarely attended classes, and in 1891 he left to work as a reporter and writer. His first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), about life in the city's slums, was published privately with money inherited from his mother and did not sell. The Red Badge of Courage (1895), the story of a young soldier's fear and courage in battle during the American Civil War, made him famous, although he had never seen a war. He later worked as a war correspondent in Greece and Cuba. In 1897, on his way to Cuba, he survived the sinking of a ship off Florida, an experience he turned into the short story 'The Open Boat'. He settled in England with his companion Cora Taylor, where Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells befriended him. Suffering from tuberculosis, he died in Germany in 1900, aged 28.

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Faith: Son of a Methodist minister and a highly religious mother; his own beliefs differed from hers. Source: Wikipedia