American Literature / Unit 12 AML 1106 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Stephen Crane: A Short Life
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The idea
Born in Newark in eighteen seventy-one, the fourteenth child of a Methodist minister, Crane left college to write, worked as a freelance journalist, and covered the Spanish-American War as a correspondent. He was dead at twenty-eight, having changed American prose.
In practice
Fourteenth child, journalist, dead at twenty-eight.
Where people slip
The whole career runs under ten years.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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