"Born on November 1, 1871.
Lived to be only 29 yrs. old, died June 5, 1900.
Family: last of 14 children, son of Methodist minister who died when he was nine. He also moved three times when he was a child in the New York area.
He never cared for schooling, attended Syracuse University for one semester where he was most noted for playing baseball.
Crane lived the down-and-out life of a penniless artist who became well known as a poet, journalist, social critic, and a realist. He was noted as being an "original" in his field of work.
Was obsessed by war and other forms of physical and psychic violence.
Began writing for newspapers in 1891 when he settled in New York where he developed his powers as an observer of psychological and social reality.
After he wrote Red Badge of Courage, he was hired as a reporter in the American West and Mexico.
Red Badge of Courage earned Crane international acclaim at age 24.
Crane moved to Jacksonville, Florida when he was 27 where he got married.
While he was in Jacksonville, his boat The Commodore sank off the coast and he wrote about the harrowing adventure in The New York Press.
Crane covered the Greco-Turkish War and later settled in England where he made friends with famous writers of the time including H.G. Wells and Henry James.
He later covered the Spanish-American War for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World.
During the last few years of his life, he began writing furiously because he was in debt and suffering from tuberculosis. He later died while he was in Germany.
"(http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Crane/bio.html)
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