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 Stephen Crane  (1871-1900)   ** Background:**
 * Born in Newark, New Jersey, on November 1, 1871
 * Youngest of 14 children
 * Attended Syracuse University, but did not graduate
 * Worked as a journalist
 * Wrote novels, short stories, and poems
 * Lived to be 23 years old

**Literary Work****:**  Works Cited
 * His first novel entitled  //Maggie, a Girl of the Streets // was published by Crane himself in 1893
 * His most famous novel, //The Red Badge of Courage // (1895), tells the story of a civil war soldier so vividly that many veterans thought he had participated in the war, even though he was born 6 years after the fighting had ended
 * Also published in 1895 was Crane's //The Black Riders//, one of his two collections of free verse poetry
 * Crane's use of stripped down lines and stark phrasing in his poems helped influence the Imagist movement in poetry
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Published his most well known short stories in 1898, including "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," "Death and the Child," "The Monster," and "The Blue Hotel."
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Some of Crane's works were published posthumously, these include //Whilomville Stories//, //Wounds in the Rain//, //Great Battles of the World//, //Last Words//, and //The O'Ruddy//

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