STEPHEN CRANE TIMELINE

Quick Facts

• Born November 1, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey.
The fourteenth child of Jonathan and Mary Helen Crane.

• Published his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, in 1893.

• Achieved international fame with the publication of
The Red Badge of Courage in 1895. He was just twenty-three.

• Between 1895 and 1898, acted as a reporter and war
correspondent for an American newspaper syndicate.

• Died on June 5, 1900 from tuberculosis at age twenty-eight.