Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Ser.: Stephen Crane ...

The University of Alabama Press

Stephen Crane RememberedAuthor(s): Paul Sorrentino\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817360627, 978-0817360627\nSynopsis\nRevealing episodes in the life of the elusive writer, as told by acquaintances\n\nThis book collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misrepresented writer. Although Crane is widely regarded as a major American author, conclusions about his life, work, and thought remain obscure due to the difficulties in separating fact from fiction. His first biographer recorded mostly vague impressions and, to mythologize his subject, invented a multitude of the episodes and letters used in his account of Cranes life. Subsequent biographies were either cursory summations or compendiums of verifiable facts. Crane himself was both reclusive and mercurial, protective of his inner life w.