Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

American Novelist, Short-Story Writer and Poet 

American novelist Stephen Crane is best known for his classic book The Red Badge of Courage. His use of realism in his stories immensely influenced future American writers.

The Early Years of Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child and the youngest, of a Methodist minister, Reverend Townley Crane, and Mary Helen Peck Crane.

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Works by Stephen Crane

• Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, 1893
• The Black Riders, 1895
• The Red Badge of Courage, 1895
• George’s Mother, 1896
• The Open Boat and Other Tales, 1898
• War is Kind, 1899
• Active Service, 1899
• Wounds in the Rain, 1900
• The O’Ruddy (completed by Robert Barr), 1903, published after he died

John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American Poet, is born today, December 17.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson, Teller of Tales

 

by Tel Asiado, Nov 13, 2008

Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet and travel writer, famous for classic novels Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

 

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and a leading advocate of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors including Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov. Most modernist writers dismissed him because he was popular and did not write within their definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond is popularity and give him a place in the literary world.

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