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Newark, New Jersey, Stephen Crane was the 14th and last child of Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Mary Helen Peck Crane.
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Claverack College (1888-90) before spending less than two years as a college student (first at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and then at Syracuse University). He then moved to Paterson, New Jersey,
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Claverack College (1888-90) before spending less than two years as a college student (first at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and then at Syracuse University). He then moved to Paterson, New Jersey,
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Crane truly embarked upon a literary career in 1892, when he moved to New York and began freelancing as a writer.
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Calling the book "the most truthful and unhackneyed study of the slums I have yet read."
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While Crane most likely had completed an early draft of his first book, the novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), while studying at Syracuse, it wasn't until after moving to New York that he rewrote and finalized the piece.Maggie was initially rejected by several publishers who feared that Crane's description of slum life would shock readers. Crane ended up publishing the work himself in 1893, under the pseudonym "Johnston Smith."
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Softening some of the book's graphic details.
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However, after the ship on which he was traveling, the SS Commodore, sank, Crane spent a day and a half adrift with three other men. His account of the ordeal resulted in one of the world's great short stories, "The Open Boat."
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Wrote after the ship sank.
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Unable to get to Cuba, in April 1898, Crane went to Greece to report on the Greco-Turkish War, taking with him Cora Taylor, a former brothel proprietor.
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In May 1899, Crane, along with Cora Taylor, checked into a health spa on the edge of the Black Forest in Germany. One month later, on June 5, 1900, Stephen Crane died of tuberculosis at the age of 28.
