Born to a Methodist minister on November 1st, 1871, Stephen Crane was to become one of the greatest American artists of his century. During his youth Crane lived in many different places due to his father's successive ecclesiastical appointments. Many of these early homes would later serve as settings for novels such as The Third Violet and short stories such as...

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In examining The Red Badge of Courage, one must realize that the majority of the story takes place upon a single battlefield. In respect to this, in order to determine Crane�s meaning behind writing The Red Badge of Courage, we must look at the grand events of the battlefield. The novel follows the actions and emotions of Henry Fleming, a young man who has left his home in upstate...

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Stephen Crane was born the 14th child of a Methodist minister in Newark, New Jersey. His mother was an active member of the Woman�s Christian Temperance Union, and published some fiction. Both of Crane�s parents did some writing and two of his brothers became newspapermen. His early life consisted of moving multiple times in the New Jersey area.

Crane enrolled at both Lafayette College and Syracuse University, but stayed long at neither. After his mother's death in 1890 (his father had already passed away) Crane moved to New York. He supported himself as a free-lance writer and journalist. While in New York, Crane began research for his first novel, Maggie. Although publishers turned down his book as to realistic, Crane published the book at his own expense, on money he had borrowed from his brother, and included in the foreword that �it is [was] inevitable that you be greatly shocked by this book, but continue, please, with all possible courage to the end.� It was praised by realist writers of the period as stunningly accurate...

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