Stephen crane biography summary example

Stephen Crane ( – ) was an American novelist and poet. He was born in Newark, New Jersey and went to school at the Lafayette College and Syracuse University, but had little interest in school and left to pursue his dream of writing.

He had been writing since he was four years old, and was published at sixteen.

Stephen crane biography summary example

He moved to New York to become a reporter. He became a freelance reporter in the slums and wrote about his impoverished existence in his first book, Maggie, a Girl on the Streets (). Although it was praised by other writers, it didn't do well commercially.

His next book, The Red Badge of Courage () did so well that he won international recognition.

Although never having been in the military himself, Crane's depictions were so realistic that he was immediately courted by American and foreign newspapers who wanted to hire him as a war correspondent during the Greco-Turkish War () and the Spanish American War ().

While traveling from the United States to Cuba in ,