Victorian
Stephen Crane
1871–1900
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) was born in Newark, New Jersey, the fourteenth child of a Methodist minister. He published Maggie: A Girl of the Streets at his own expense in 1893 and The Red Badge of Courage in 1895, then worked as a war correspondent in Greece and Cuba; the shipwreck on the way to Cuba became “The Open Boat”. He died of tuberculosis in Germany at twenty-eight.
Sources: Bibliomancer editorial note, written from standard reference facts (dates, places, principal works).
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