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STEPHEN CRANE (1870-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEPHEN See also:CRANE (1870-1900)  , See also:American writer, was See also:born at See also:Newark, New See also:Jersey, on the 1st of See also:November 187o, and was educated at See also:Lafayette See also:College and See also:Syracuse University . His first See also: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 See also:Civil See also:War . He was also the author of various other stories, and acted as a war correspondent in the See also:Greco-See also:Turkish War (1897) and the See also:Spanish American War (1898) . His See also:health became seriously affected in See also:Cuba, and on his return he settled down in See also:England . He died at See also:Badenweiler, See also:Germany, on the 5th of See also:June 190o .

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