The Double Life of Stephen Crane

by Christopher E . G . Benfey (Author)

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  1994

  $3.27

  The American novelist-journalist Stephen Crane was born in 1871, six years after the war he memorialized in his acclaimed The Red Badge of Courage , and died of tuberculosis at the age of 28. Recounting Crane's brief life, this book identifies a curious pattern: Crane tried to live what he had already written. Barely 22 when he wrote his major work, he later became the leading war correspondent of his time - in order to see, he told Joseph Conrad, whether The Red Badge of Courage was all right . He took as his common-law wife the madam of a Jacksonville brothel and made a life with her in England, where their circle of friends included Conrad, Henry James, Ford Madox Ford and H.G. Wells.