![]() Not to mention the distractions in the dark wood of his life's journey, especially his liaison with Cora Taylor, the madam of the Hotel de Dream, the fanciest sporting house in Jacksonville, Fla., who became his common-law wife. Streetwise sketches, stories and journalism for New York City newspapers and magazines novels and novellas: "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" (self-published), "The Red Badge of Courage," "George's Mother," "The Third Violet," "The Monster" dozens of short stories, including three classics, "The Blue Hotel," "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" and "The Open Boat" war correspondence from Greece and Cuba poetry: "The Black Riders" and "War Is Kind," and hundreds of letters. Reading "The Double Life of Stephen Crane," Christopher Benfey's analytical biography of one of America's legendary writers, it still seems incredible how much Crane packed into his eight writing years before his death in 1900 at the age of 28: The Double Life of Stephen Crane By Christopher Benfey 294 pages. ![]()
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