Stephen Crane Biography Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871. Stephen was the last of 14 children. His father a Methodist Minister died when he was nine. Stephen never cared much for school. He became well known as a social critic, journalist, and as a poet. He was original in his field of work.
Crane attended Clave rack College also the Hudson River Institute, and the University of Syracuse for one semester where he was most known for playing baseball. Crane was obsessed with war and any form of violence. In 1891 he started writing for newspapers in the New York area. Stephen Cranes first work was a novel called Maggie: A Girl of The Streets. Then Crane wrote the Red Badge Of Courage, a novel about a civil war soldier, which earned Crane international acclaim at age 24 this was Cranes most famous work. Crane was then hired as a reporter in the American West, and Mexico.
At age 27 Crane moved to Jacksonville, Florida where he got married. While in Jacksonville, his boat the Commodore sank off the coast and Crane wrote about his adventure in the New York Press. Crane also covered the Greco Turkish war and later settled in England where he made friends with famous writers of the time including H. G. Wells and Henry James. Crane also covered the Spanish American War for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World.
During the last few years of his life, he was in debt and suffering from tuberculosis. He died on June 5, 1900 while he was in Germany he was only 29. Some of Cranes most famous works are The Red Badge Of Courage (1895), The Blue Hotel (1898), and War is Kind and Other Lines (1899).
The Essay on New York Famous Manhattan People
New York City isn't the capital of USA and it isn't the capital of New York State, but residents of the "Big Apple" considering their city the capital of the globe. It is because New York is the home of the United Nations and the largest investment market in the world. When first immigrants came to this land, they bought Manhattan Island for $24 from local Indians. Then they founded there a first ...
Stephen Crane also wrote Maggie a Girl of the Streets (1896).
The Open Boat (1898), and Active Service (1899).
