BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY OF A FAMOUS AQUARIUS: STEPHEN CRANE

Writer and poet, born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He studied at Claverack College and Hudson River Institute, New York (1888–90), and briefly at Lafayette College, PA and Syracuse College, NY (1891). He moved to New York City (1892), worked as a journalist, published his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), and also wrote poetry. In 1895 he published his most famous work, The Red Badge of Courage, a novel centring on a young Civil War soldier. He travelled widely as a journalist and war correspondent but in 1898 settled in England, where he befriended several important writers including Joseph Conrad. Crane died prematurely of tuberculosis, but he left a body of work that has secured him a place as an American master.