The Life and Times of Stephen Crane By Eric Natsuki Carrissa Cameron Sid

contents Author’s life Education Writings Contribution to American literature

Author’s life Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey, on November1, 1871 He wrote articles with his brother for local papers and the New York Tribune After his mom died, he moved to New York as a free lance writer and a journalist. Crane died on June 5, 1900 at Badenweiler in Germany of tuberculosis, which was worsened by malarial fever he had caught in Cuba.

Education Crane studied at Lafayette college and Syracuse University In his stay at Lafayette, he joined the Delta Upsilon University

Writings “The Open Book and other tales” “Maggie, Girl of the streets” "Making an Orator" “Active Service” “The Blue Hotel” “His New Mittens” “A self-Made Man”

His Contribution to American Literature Crane’s works attracted international acclaim for realism and psychological depth with eerie accuracy depicting war. "Thoroughly researched and elegantly written” “An important work that traces how journalism and literature interact in the late-nineteenth and early- twentieth century.” "A fresh and illuminating appreciation of Stephen Crane’s achievement as a writer, and a valuable study of continuities between modern American literature and the aesthetics and strategies of turn-of- the-century journalism.”

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