Stephen Crane
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Stephen Crane was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturali
Formal portrait of Stephen Crane, about March 1896
Cadet Crane in uniform at the age of 17
Stephen Crane (front row, center) sits with baseball teammates on the steps of the Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, 1891. (Photo courtesy of the SU Special Collections Research Center)
A steam train on the Third Avenue El over the Bowery in 1896
The Monster (novella)
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The Monster is an 1898 novella by American author Stephen Crane. The story takes place in the small, fictional town of Whilomville, New York. An African-American coachman named Henry Johnson, who is e
Stephen Crane
…Crane is also known for his poetry, journalism, and short stories such as "The Open Boat", "The Blue Hotel", "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", and The Monster. His writing made a deep impression on 20th-century writers, most prominent among them Ernest Hemingway, and is thought to have inspired the Modernists…
First edition of The Monster and Other Stories, published in 1899
Illustration of Henry Johnson carrying Jimmie through the burning house, by Peter Newell
Stephen Crane in 1894; print of a portrait by artist and friend Corwin K. Linson
The Monster is sometimes compared to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818).