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The story of twenty-four-year-old world famous, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane, who wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first-hand.

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World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first-hand.

So true was his portrait of a young man who runs from his first confrontation with battle that Civil War veterans argued about whose regiment Crane had been in. Considered by H. G. Wells as "beyond dispute, the best writer of our generation," Crane was also famous in his time as an unforgettable personality, an Adonis with tawny hair and gray-blue eyes, that Willa Cather described as "full of luster and changing lights." A lover of women and truth at any cost, Crane, in his short life, paid dearly for both. He alienated the New York police when he testified against a policeman on behalf of a prostitute falsely accused of soliciting, forcing him to live the rest of his short life as an expatriate in England. Reporting on the Spanish American War, Crane described the Rough Riders blundering into a trap after arriving in Cuba, infuriating Roosevelt. He died tragically young, leaving behind a handful of fine short stories, including "The Open Boat" and "The Blue Hotel", along with war reporting, novels, and poetry.

"Ann Marie Lee's delivery of Davis's exhaustive biography brings to life one of America's extraordinary authors and journalists, Stephen Crane, best known for his Civil War novel, THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE."---AudioFile

Badge of Courage

The Life of Stephen Crane

Author Linda H. Davis

Narrated by Ann Marie Lee

Publication date May 24, 2022

Running time 16 hrs 28 min

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