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13 unusual facts about Stephen Crane


124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Stephen Crane is known to have interviewed veterans of 124th while researching his book The Red Badge of Courage, commonly held to depict a fictionalized version of the Battle of Chancellorsville, and is thought to have based some experiences in the book on their testimony.

Albert Band

In the late 1950s he moved to Europe producing a variety of films beginning in Sweden with Face of Fire based on another of Stephen Crane's stories, The Monster.

Arena Publishing Co.

The journal featured articles and essays by the company's authors, like Garland and Schindler, plus early work by Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Upton Sinclair.

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

The title is taken from "In the Desert," a poem by Stephen Crane.

Claverack College

Stephen Crane, author (said his time at Claverack was among the happiest in his life)

In 1890 student, Stephen Crane, who later became a prominent author, published his first article in the February 1890 Claverack College Vidette about the explorer Henry M. Stanley's quest to find the English missionary David Livingstone in Africa.

Cordelia Botkin

Unfortunately for him, his own work as a reporter was overshadowed by the more impressive reports sent from Cuba by Stephen Crane and Richard Harding Davis.

F. Holland Day

The firm was the American publisher of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley; The Yellow Book periodical, also illustrated by Beardsley; and The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane.

Hershel Parker

His work on Stephen Crane repeatedly evoked threats of lawsuits from Fredson Bowers for exposing sloppiness in both theory and practice in the Virginia Edition.

Irving Fine

Towards the end of his life, Fine notably collaborated with Wernick on the musical Maggie, a work based on the Stephen Crane novel of the same name.

John B. Van Petten

From 1885 to 1900, he was Professor of History, Latin and Elocution at Claverack College where his pupil Stephen Crane heard Van Petten's Civil War reminiscences which became the base for The Red Badge of Courage.

SS Commodore

The event was immortalized when passenger and author Stephen Crane, who was traveling as a war correspondent for the Bacheller-Johnson syndicate, wrote the classic short story "The Open Boat" about his experience.

Thomas Beer

Beer was best known for his biographies of Stephen Crane (1923) and Mark Hanna (1929), as well as his study of American manners during the 1890s, The Mauve Decade (1926).


O Street

O Street makes you think of great writers in strange combinations: Dreiser and Welty; Wright and McCullers; Joan Didion and Stephen Crane.

Peter Newell

Newell often illustrated the works of other authors, such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, and Lewis Carroll.

Pleiades Club

Among the customers of Maria's, the Pleiades Club named: Amos Cummings, Colonel William Gulder, Ripley Oswood Anthony, Paul Du Chaillu, Clara Louise Kellogg, Mark Twain, Valerian Gribayedoff, Signor Tagliapietra, "Billy" (W. E. S) Fales, Cleveland Moffett, Stephen Crane, "Billy" Welsh, Henry Tyrrell, Sam Chamberlain, Colonel Patton, William Garrison, George Luks, and Ernest Jarrold as its progenitors.

Star Wars Miniatures Battles

Star Wars Miniatures Battles core rulebook was written by Stephen Crane and Paul Murphy, published by West End Games in January 1989.