American author Stephen Crane died of this at age 28:
- Wounds suffered in the Spanish-American War
- Tuberculosis
- Yellow fever
- Alcoholism
- Influenza
Daily Quiz for September 19, 2007
American author Stephen Crane died of this at age 28:
American author Stephen Crane died of this at age 28:
American author Stephen Crane died of tuberculosis in 1900 at age 28. Born November 1, 1871, Crane is best known for his 1895 work The Red Badge of Courage, a realistic portrayal of one soldier?s Civil War battle experience. Influenced by the French Naturalistic writers, Crane?s novels and short stories, portrayed individuals at the mercy of natural and social forces. In the early 1890s Crane lived in the Bowery area of New York City and, resulting from his firsthand observation of poverty in the slums, he wrote Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), a book considered shocking at the time. Crane covered the Greco-Turkish War in 1897 and the Spanish-American War in 1898 as a news correspondent. His later short-story collections, such as The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure (1898), are recognized as masterpieces of the form.