Auteur: Paul Sorrentino

Stephen Crane’s short, compact life–"a life of fire, " he called it–is surrounded by myths, distortions, and fabrications. Paul Sorrentino has sifted through garbled chronologies and cont …

Born into a family of writers, Stephen Crane wrote his first poem, I’d Rather Have when he was eight, and his first short story, Uncle Jake and the Bell-Handle, at around the age of 13. Despite never …

Stephen Crane’s weirdly impressionistic The Red Badge of Courage is one of the first non-romantic novels of the Civil War-and the first non-romantic account to gain wide popularity. Paul Sorrentino i …