Stephen Crane 2
Stephen Crane was one of the United States foremost naturalists in the late 1800's ("Stephen" n.p.). He depicted the human mind in a way that few others have been capable of doing while examining his own beliefs. Crane was so dedicated to his beliefs that one should write about only what they personally experience that he lived in a self-imposed poverty for part of his life to spur on his writings (Colvert, 12:108). Crane's contribution to American Literature is larger than any one of his books or poems. All parts of Crane's life greatly influenced, or were influenced by his writings, whether it was his early life, formal education, writing career, or later years ("Stephen" n.p.). Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871. He was the last of fourteen children of a Methodist minister, Jonathan Townley, and Mary Helen Peck ("Stephen" n.p.). Being a minister, his father greatly influenced his ideas and attitudes towards writing. His father was a kind minister, but his mother be
In his later life Crane became ill with tubercleiosis after a shipwreck en route to Havana (Quartermain 54:109). At the age of twenty seven Crane moved to Jacksonville, Florida and met his future common law wife, Cora Taylor ("Crane" n.p.). The lived together at the Hotel Dedream, a hotel, nightclub, and brothel. While in Jacksonville he wrote about the Commodore sinking. He also reported on the Spanish-American War for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World in an attempt to pay off debts that he had incurred during this time. Crane made famous friends here such as H.G. Wells and Henry James. Crane then moved to London, England, where in 1900 he began to hemorrhage constantly and was moved to Dover, and shortly after to a sanitarium at Beden Weiler in the Black Forest (Quartermain 54:112) He died there on June 5, 1900 ("Crane" n.p.). lieved that God was a God of wrath. The effects of his preoccupation with faith are evident in most of Crane's work, Throughout his writings he tried to shake the thought that
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