Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)

Stephen Crane is born November 1, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey. He is a son of Jonathan Townley Crane D.D. and Mary Helen Peck. He is the fourteenth and last child born to the couple.

After the death of his father Jonathan Townley Crane, his mother movs to "Roseville" leaving 8 year old Stephen in the care of his older brother Edmund in Sussex, New Jersey. He next lives with his brother William in Port Jervis. After a few years, he moves in with brother Jonathan Townley in Asbury Park.

Stephen is a prolific writer throughout his short career. He is a reporter and a war correspondent as well as publishing other articles. His first novel is "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" but it is "The Red Badge of Courage" that he is most know for.

Stephen has health issues in his youth and on June 5, 1900, he succumbs to tuberculosis in a Black Forest sanatorium in Germany at the age of 28.

Other works include:

• "Stephen Crane's Own Story"
• "The Open Boat and Other Stories"
• "The Black Riders and Other Lines" Poetry.
• "George's Mother"
• "War is Kind and Other Lines" Poetry.
• "The Monster and Other Stories"
• "Wounds in the Rain; War Stories"
• "The O'Ruddy; A Romance", Robert Barr, co-author.

Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Crane
• "New Jersey, Births, 1670-1980"
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24F-NR5K"United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925"]
• "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries"
• "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries"