Stephen Crane
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist · United States · On the map · Writers · Lived 1871 to 1900 · aged 28
Stephen Crane was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.
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Cadet Crane in uniform at the age of 17
Stephen Crane (front row, center) sits with baseball teammates on the steps of the Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, 1891. (Photo courtesy of the SU Special Collections Research Center)
A steam train on the Third Avenue El over the Bowery in 1896
Cover of The Roycroft Quarterly with a cartoon parody of the Stephen Crane poem in The Black Riders that begins, "I saw a man pursuing the horizon", May. 1896.![Detail taken from an 1894 portrait of Crane by friend and photographer Corwin Knapp Linson. Linson said the author's profile reminded him "of the young Napoleon - but not so hard, Steve".[83]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/CranebyLinson1894.jpg)
Detail taken from an 1894 portrait of Crane by friend and photographer Corwin Knapp Linson. Linson said the author's profile reminded him "of the young Napoleon - but not so hard, Steve".[83]
The SS Commodore at dock
Crane posing on a prop in the form of a rock for a studio photograph in Athens, 1897
