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Stephen Crane

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Jun 5, 1900
Zodiac
Scorpio
Born in
Newark NJ
About
Realist American author who published the acclaimed Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, in 1895. His literary work, which includes journalism, poetry and short stories, exemplifies early American Naturalism.
Family
He and his thirteen siblings were born to Methodist Episcopal minister, Jonathan Townley Crane, and minister's daughter, Mary Helen Peck Crane. Stephen Crane had an affair with Lily Brandon Munroe, a married woman who was estranged from her husband.

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