Stephen Crane
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Stephen Crane (1871–1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist, born in Newark, New Jersey, the fourteenth child of a Methodist minister. After brief spells at college he became a reporter in New York, and his experience of the slums of the Bowery went into his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), which he published at his own expense. The Red Badge of Courage (1895) brought him sudden fame. He reported on wars in Greece and Cuba, and in 1897 survived the sinking of a ship off the coast of Florida, an ordeal he turned into the story “The Open Boat”. His other work includes the poems of The Black Riders and stories such as “The Blue Hotel” and “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”. He settled in England with Cora Taylor, among friends who included Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells, and died of tuberculosis in Germany in 1900, aged twenty-eight.
