| Timeline |
| 1871 |
Born 1 November in Newark, NJ |
| 1885 |
Attends Pennington Seminary |
| 1888 |
Attends Hudson River Institute in NY |
| 1890 |
Enters Lafayette College as a mining engineering student |
| 1891 |
Transfers to Syracuse University; works as correspondent for the New York Tribune |
| 1892 |
Publishes Sullivan County Sketches in the New York Tribune in July; he is fired later in the year for his saracastic article on the Junior Order of United American Mechanics
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| 1893 |
Crane publishes Maggie: A Girl of the Streets under the pseudonym Johnston Smith |
| 1894 |
An abridged version of The Red Badge of Courage is published, other short stories and social sketches appear in The Arena and New York Press
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| 1895 |
Travels in the American West and Mexico while writing articles for the Bacheller-Johnson Syndicate; The Black Riders and Other Lines and a complete version of The Red Badge of Courage are published |
| 1896 |
Geroge's Mother (a revised version of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets) and The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War are published
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| 1897 |
En route to Cuba, Crane and the vessel the Commodore are shipwrecked off the Florida coast; The Third Violet published; moves to England with Cora Taylor; works as a journalist during the Greco-Turkish War |
| 1898 |
Works as a reporter during the Spanish-American War; The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," "Death and the Child," "The Monster," and "The Blue Hotel" published
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| 1899 |
War is Kind, The Monster and Other Stories, and Active Service published; begins writing The O'Ruddy |
| 1900 |
Dies 5 June in a sanitorium in Badenweiler, Germany; Whilomville Stories and Wounds in the Rain are published posthumously |
