STEPHEN

See also:

• CRANE (in Dutch, Kraan; O. Ger. Kraen; cognate, as also the Lat. grus, and consequently the Fr. grue and Span. grulla, with the Gr. dpavos)
• STEPHEN CRANE (1870-1900)
• CRANE, WALTER (1845– )
• CRANE, WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )

CRANE (1870-1900)  , American writer, was born at Newark, New Jersey, on the 1st of November 187o, and was educated at Lafayette College and Syracuse University . His first story, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, was published in 1891, but his greats it success was made with The Red Badge of Courage (1896), a brilliant and highly realistic, though of course imaginary, description of the experiences of a private in the Civil War . He was also the author of various other stories, and acted as a war correspondent in the Greco-Turkish War (1897) and the Spanish American War (1898) . His health became seriously affected in Cuba, and on his return he settled down in England . He died at Badenweiler, Germany, on the 5th of June 190o .