![]() ![]() At Claverack, a military school, he gained the rank of adjutant and may have had experiences that contributed to his later success in writing about war, the subject for which he became famous. ![]() The family moved frequently, and Crane's formal education included brief stays at Pennington Seminary, Lafayette College, Claverack College, and Syracuse University. His writings significantly enriched the subject matter of American literature, and his craftsmanship influenced both poetry and prose in the twentieth century.Ĭrane was born in Newark, New Jersey, the fourteenth child of Jonathan Townley Crane, a Methodist minister, and Mary Helen Peck Crane, who was herself descended from a long line of Methodist clergy. In his brief life, however, he had published five novels, two volumes of poetry, and over three hundred sketches, reports, and short stories. Less than five years later he was dead of tuberculosis. With the publication of his Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage (1895), when he was twenty-four years old, Stephen Crane became famous in the United States and England. ![]()
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