The Life and Times of Stephen Crane

By Eric Natsuki Carrissa Cameron Sid

contents•Author’s life•Education•Writings

•Contribution to American literature

Author’s life

• Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey, on November1, 1871

• He wrote articles with his brother for local papers and the New York Tribune

• After his mom died, he moved to New York as a free lance writer and a journalist.

• Crane died on June 5, 1900 at Badenweiler in Germany of tuberculosis, which was worsened by malarial fever he had caught in Cuba.

Education

• Crane studied at Lafayette college and Syracuse University

• In his stay at Lafayette, he joined the Delta Upsilon University

Writings

• “The Open Book and other tales”

• “Maggie, Girl of the streets”

• "Making an Orator"

• “Active Service”

• “The Blue Hotel”

• “His New Mittens”

• “A self-Made Man”

His Contribution to American Literature

• Crane’s works attracted international acclaim for realism and psychological depth with eerie accuracy depicting war.

• "Thoroughly researched and elegantly written”• “An important work that traces how journalism and

literature interact in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century.”

• "A fresh and illuminating appreciation of Stephen Crane’s achievement as a writer, and a valuable study of continuities between modern American literature and the aesthetics and strategies of turn-of-the-century journalism.”

Works cited

• http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023110/0231109695.HTM

• Wikipedia

• www.online-literature.com/crane/

• Google images