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Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
On June 5, 1900, famous American writer Stephen Crane died at age 28.
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Despite of his youth, he already had become one of the icons of American literature. Most famous is his American civil war novel ‘The Red Badge of Courage‘, which has been read by almost every American high school kid.
Crane was one of America’s foremost realistic writers, and his works have been credited with marking the beginning of modern American Naturalism.
“A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army’s feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills.”
— Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Early Life and First Publications
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