Badge of Courage (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda H. Davis
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Biography
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Journalism or journalists, Parents and children, Authors or writers, Literature, Novelists, Fear, Tuberculosis, Reporting or reporters
- Locales: New York, Mexico, England, Florida, Cuba, Germany, New Jersey, Greece
Stephen Crane loved war. His most famous novel is, of course, THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (1895), written by a very young man who had never seen battle. He had learned all he needed to know, he claimed, from playing football, which is characteristic of a man who saw most human interaction in terms of war. He titled one collection of his poems—or “lines” as he modestly termed them—WAR IS KIND (1899). He seemed to prefer it to most other pursuits, spending as much of his last years as he could in the heat of battle, ostensibly as a correspondent.
Biographer Linda H. Davis...
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