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Stephen Crane was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.
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Born 1 November 1871 · Died 5 June 1900 · Q206534
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When I Knew Stephen Crane by Willa Cather, read by Martin Reyto for LibriVox's Short Nonfiction Collection Vol.031
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“s Mother is less allegorical and more personal than his two previous novels, and it focuses on the conflict between a church-going, temperance-adhering woman (thought to be based on Crane”
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“an intellectual poetry rather than a poetry that evokes feeling, a poetry that stimulates the mind rather than arouses the heart”
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“s early fiction was based in camping expeditions in his teens; these stories eventually became known as The Sullivan County Tales and Sketches. He considered these”
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“It is a great thing to survey the army of the enemy. Just where and how it takes hold upon the heart is difficult of description.”
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“I wonder that some of those fellows don”
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“open and plain, with nothing hidden.”
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“was a great, fine, simple mind”
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“she was as narrow as most of her friends or family.”
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Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2019).
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Death haunts Crane's work; it overshadows his best efforts, each of which features the signal demise of a main character
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"The critic wanders in a labyrinth of possibilities, which every new turn taken by Crane's fiction seems to explode or deny
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Hemingway wrote in Green Hills of Africa that "The good writers are Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain
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Which was followed by editor Wilson Follett's The Work of Stephen Crane (1925–1927), that Crane's writing came to the attention of a scholarly audience
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Died 1900-06-05.
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“doing more work now than I have at any other period in my life”
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Under suspicious circumstances, Crane was offered a £60 advance by Blackwood's Magazine for articles "from the seat of war in the event of a war breaking out" between the United States and Spain
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“I have invented the sum of my invention with regard to war and this story keeps me in internal despair.”
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On a train bound for Jacksonville, Florida
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Escorted two chorus girls and Clark from New York City's Broadway Garden, a popular "resort" where he had interviewed the women for a series he was writing
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“not find that short stories are utterly different in character from other fiction. It seems to me that short stories are the easiest things we write.”
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Crane responded that he "dare not say that I am honest
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Crane endured a highly publicized scandal after appearing as a witness in the trial of a suspected prostitute, an acquaintance named Dora Clark
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Crane was recognized by critics mainly as a novelist
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For another man, but was still legally married
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Crane's mother died at the age of 64, and the 20-year-old appointed Edmund as his guardian
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But shortly afterward left college for good
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Had married British Captain Donald William Stewart
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“Uncle Jake and the Bell Handle”
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At the age of 60; Stephen was eight years old
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“sounds like the lie of a fond mother at a teaparty, but I do remember that I got ahead very fast and that father was very pleased with me.”
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In Newark, New Jersey, to Jonathan Townley Crane, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mary Helen Peck Crane, daughter of a clergyman, George Peck
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Born 1871-11-01.
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“I see that none has passed here In a long time.”
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