“The word poet continually reminds me of long-hair and seems to me a most detestable form of insult.”
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…