বায়োগ্রাফি: Stephen Crane was a prolific writer of poetry, novelist, and short stories. he wrote in the Realist tradition. He is recognized as the most innovative writers of his generation. His parents were Methodist. He started writing at the age of 4 and by 16 he was published. He worked as a reporter and writer after leaving Syracuse University in 1891. His first success came by the novel The Red Badge of Courage on the Civil War. His A Girl of the Streets is considered as the first American literary Naturalism. In 1896 he went to Cuba as a war reporter and met Cora Tylor. He later lived with her in England after covering conflicts in Greece. He was friends with Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells and plagued by financial insolvency. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 28. During his death, Crane was an important figure in literature. Recognized for The Red Badge of Courage, his notable works are "The Blue Hotel", "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", and The Monster. He influenced Ernest Hemingway.