War Is Kind | Author Biography
Born in Newark, New Jersey, on November 1, 1871 to Mary Helen Peck Crane, Stephen Crane was the last of fourteen children. His father, the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Townley Crane, was an elder in the District of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Newark and, later, the Methodist pastor in Port Jervis, New York. After his father died in 1880, Crane and his mother moved to Asbury Park, New Jersey, where during the summers he helped his brother, Townley, with his news service.
At fifteen, Crane enrolled at the Hudson River Institute, a lightweight military prep school, but he never...
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