StephenCrane

• **Personal Life** Stephen Crane was born in 1871 in Newark New Jersy. Stephen's father, Jonathan Crane, was a Methodist minister who died in 1880. Attending at the Claverack College (1888-90), Crane spent less than two years at college and then went to live in a medical students' boardinghouse while freelancing his way to a literary career. Stephen Crane died of tuberculosis that was compounded by the recurrent malarial fever he had caught in Cuba.

• **Professional Life** In 1895 he published on of his best known books of poems //The Red Badge of Courage// and //The Black Riders.// He was not a major novel writer but his short stories and poems were the best of there time. Crane had not seen an actual war or battle was widely praised by veterans for his uncanny power to imagine and reproduce the sense of actual combat. While he was tring to report on the insurection of Cuba the ship he was traveling sunk. After he got back to shore he wrote his famous short story //The Open Boat.//

• **Major works** //Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) The Red Badge of Courage (1895) The Open Boat The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky The Blue Hotel// • **Awards won** N/A • **Period and/or Style** He was a great stylist and a master of the contradictory effect. • **Favorite Themes** War Soilders and Veterans