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Stephen Crane (November 1, – June 5, ) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
Stephen Crane
(1871-1900)
Who Was Stephen Crane?
One of America's most influential realist writers, Stephen Crane produced works that have been credited with establishing the foundations of modern American naturalism.
His Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895) realistically depicts the psychological complexities of battlefield emotion and has become a literary classic. He is also known for authoring Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
Early Years and Education
Born on November 1, 1871, in Newark, New Jersey, Crane was the 14th and last child of writer/suffragist Mary Helen Peck Crane and Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane, a Methodist Episcopal minister.
Raised by his older sister Agnes, the young Crane attended preparatory school at Claverack College. He later spent less than two years overall as a college student at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and then at Syracuse University in upstate New York.
He then moved to Paterson, New Jersey with one of his bro