The Life and Times of Stephen Crane

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The Life and Times of Stephen Crane

By Eric Natsuki Carrissa Cameron Sid
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contents

• Authors life
• Education
• Writings
• Contribution to American literature

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Authors 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.

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Education

• Crane studied at Lafayette college and Syracuse
  University
• In his stay at Lafayette, he joined the Delta
  Upsilon University

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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

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His Contribution to American Literature

• Cranes 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
  Cranes 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.

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Works cited

• http//www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023110
  /0231109695.HTM
• Wikipedia
• www.online-literature.com/crane/
• Google images