“My chiefest desire was to write plainly and unmistakably, so that all men (and some women) might read and understand. That to my mind is good writing.”
About Stephen Crane
1 November 1871–5 June 1900
Stephen Crane, born 1 November 1871 in Newark, New Jersey, and dead of tuberculosis on 5 June 1900 in Badenweiler, Germany, lived only twenty-eight years, yet his work altered the direction of American fiction, journalism, and poetry. He is commonly placed among the major writers of literary naturalism, beside such…