Stephen Crane — A Profile of the American Writer
8 min readApr 4, 2021
Author of The Red Badge of Courage
In 1953 Ernest Hemingway was having a bad time with the critics: with his work likened to that of many who had gone before, most notably F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flaubert, Dante, and Stephen Crane. Hemingway dismissed them all, except Stephen Crane, a writer he’d read and admired for years. In many ways Hemingway modelled himself on Crane, not just…
