{\b Stephen Crane}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 1 November 1871 

{\b Date of Death}.: 5 June 1900

{\b Works}.

American novelist, poet and short story writer. 
His works include Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), The Red Badge of 
Courage (1894), George's Mother (1896), Active Service (1899), The O'Ruddy 
(1903), six volumes of short stories, including  The Little Regiment (1896), 
and two poetry collections: The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895) and War Is 
Kind (1899).

{\b Featured Works}.

The Red Badge of Courage.

{\b General Comment}.

Crane was the youngest of fourteen children of a travelling Methodist 
minister. He had an unhappy education, attending a semi-military school, 
Claverack College, which he detested, and leaving New York's Syracuse 
University after only one semester in 1891.

 Working as a newspaper reporter and war correspondent Crane travelled widely, 
visiting Mexico, the American West, Greece and Cuba, where he was reported to 
have died following the capsize of his boat. This incident led to one of his 
best short stories, The Open Boat. His works display a sharp realism and 
powerful intensity. The Red Badge of  Courage is regularly cited as one of the 
best war novels along with the likes of Erich Remarque's All Quiet On the 
Western Front. 
In 1899 Crane and his wife Cora Stewart moved to Sussex, in England, where 
they lived beyond their means and became deeply in debt. The following year 
Crane died of  tuberculosis in Badenweiler, Germany.