![]() ![]() In this urban setting, he worked as a freelance writer and eventually completed his first novel, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets. While Crane was in college, his mother passed away afterwards he dropped out and moved to New York City. During his brief stint at college, Crane came into contact with Hamlin Garland, an author whose style would influence Crane’s own works. At Syracuse University, he excelled in baseball and enjoyed a much more successful social life than an academic life. Ultimately, Crane spent less than two years in college. Later, he attended Claverack College and the Hudson River Institute. Crane herself was an active writer who contributed to various Methodist papers.Ĭrane attended a Methodist boarding school for two years from 1885 to 1887. ![]() Crane moved her family back to New Jersey, where they lived in Asbury Park. His father, a strict Methodist minister, died in 1880, leaving his devout, strong mother to raise the children. ![]() The Crane family moved to Port Jervis, New York, where Crane first began his education. Born in November 1871 in Newark, New Jersey, Stephen Crane was the youngest of fourteen children. ![]()
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