Stephen Crane was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. He wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. His writing made a deep impression on 20th-century writers, most prominent among them Ernest Hemingway. He died of tuberculosis in a Black Forest sanatorium in Germany at the age of 28.
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Stephen Crane was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. He wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. Crane’s first novel was the 1893 Bowery tale Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, generally considered by critics to be the first work of American literary Naturalism. He won international acclaim in 1895 for his Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage, which he wrote without having any battle experience. Plagued by financial difficulties and ill health, Crane died of tuberculosis in a Black Forest sanatorium in Germany at the age of 28. At the time of his death, Crane was considered an important figure in American literature. His writing made a deep impression on 20th-century writers, most prominent among them Ernest Hemingway, and is thought to have inspired the Modernists and the Imagists. Stephen Crane was born on November 1, 1871, in Newark, New Jersey, to Jonathan Townley Crane, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mary Helen Peck Crane, daughter of a clergyman, George Peck. He was the fourteenth and last child born to the couple. Stephen was named for a putative founder of Elizabethtown, New. Jersey, who had, according to family tradition, come from England or Wales in 1665, and his great-great-grandfather Stephen Crane, a Revolutionary War patriot who served as New Jersey delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
The young Stephen was raised primarily by his sister Agnes, who was 15 years his senior. As a child, Stephen was often sickly and afflicted by constant colds and colds. His first known inquiry, recorded by his father, dealt with writing; at age three, he asked his brother, O. O. Townley, how do you do you spell O? When the boy was two, his father wrote in his diary that his youngest son became so sick that we are so anxious about him. Despite his fragile nature, he was an intelligent child who taught himself to read and write at age four before he read his first book at age six. He later became a pastor of the Drew Drew Church, New York, where he retained his position until his death in 1876. He also wrote short stories such as The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel, and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. He died in Germany in 1878, aged 28, and was buried in a New Jersey cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Cora Taylor, and their eight surviving brothers and sisters, including Agnes Elizabeth, William Howe, Edmund Byran, Wilbur Fiske, and Luther. He had a daughter, Mary Helen, and a son, William. Crane, Jr., with whom he had a son named William. The family moved to Port New York where he became the pastor of The Jervis Drew Church. In 1896, Crane endured a highly publicized scandal after appearing as a witness in the trial of a suspected prostitute, Dora Clark.
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