Stephen Crane

Contents Introduction Prologue: Final Days, January-June 1900 Part I. The Wrenches of Childhood 1. Roots and Beginnings: 1635-1871 2. Childhood: 1871-1884 3. The Holiness Controversy: 1874-1879 4. Onward to Port Jervis: March 1878-February 1880 5. Schooling at Asbury Park, Pennington, Claverack: March 1880-Spring 1890 6. College at Lafayette and Syracuse: September 1890-May 1891 Part II. Learning the Craft 7. Fledgling Writer: 1887-December 1891 8. Satirist in Asbury Park: Summer 1892 9. Maggie: September 1892-March 1893 10. Genesis of The Red Badge of Courage: 1893-February 1894 11. Struggling Artist, Poet at Work: February-March 1894 12. Frustrated Artist: April-December 1894 13. On the Verge of Celebrity: January-October 1895 Part III. Fame, Notoriety, an Altered Point of View 14. International Fame: Fall 1895-Spring 1896 15. Price of Fame: January-September 1896 16. The Dora Clark Incident: Fall 1896 17. Jacksonville: November-December 1896 18. The Commodore Incident: January 1897 19. The Greco-Turkish War: January-May 1897 Part IV. New Start. Old Habits 20. Ravensbrook, Harold Frederic, Joseph Conrad: June-October 1897 21. Creative Outburst: October 1897-April 1898 22. Prelude to War: January-May 1898 23. War in Cuba: June-July 1898 24. New York City, Adirondacks, Puerto Rico: July-August 1898 25. Havana: September-December 1898 Part V. Search for Respectability, Country Squire 26. Brede Place, Return to Childhood, Another Potboiler:January-June 1899 27. Brede Place Visitors, Return to Ancestry: June-August 1899 28. Trips to Europe, Final Celebration, Badenweiler: September 1899-June 1900 Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index