Stephen Crane (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

Stephen Crane was born November 1, 1871, in Newark, New Jersey, the fourteenth and last child of the Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane and Mary Helen Peck Crane. Dr. Crane was an eminent Methodist ecclesiastic, one consequence of which was that the family moved frequently: in 1874, 1876, and finally, in 1878, to Port Jervis, New York, a town that would figure in Stephen Crane's late fiction as Whilomville (Whilomville Stories, 1900). Dr. Crane died suddenly in 1880.

One plausible source of Stephen Crane's universal skepticism is rebellion against his...

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