Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1871. He was the fourteenth Child of a Methodist Priest. Unfortunately, Crane's father died when he was only nine. In his youth, Crane never cared for schooling, and basically, he slacked off at his college, Syracuse University. He only stayed one semester and became well renowned on the baseball field rather than for academics. He lived a callous and penniless life on the streets, although he became known as a critic, dramatist, journalist, poet and a realist. One of the most important novel that Stephen Crane wrote, The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War, demonstrates Crane's fascination with human psycholog
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