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The writing styles of two war correspondents: Stephen Crane and Ernie Pyle.(The Evolution of War and Its Representation in Literature and Film)(Critical essay)

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From: West Virginia University Philological Papers
Date: 20040922
Author:Nelson, Ronald J.

Despite a fourteen-year difference in age, Joseph Conrad and Stephen Crane were close friends from the time they met on 15 October 1897 until Crane died on 5 June 1900. Conrad had read The Red Badge of Courage and Crane had expressed an interest in meeting the author of The Nigger of the "Narcissus", so Sidney Pawling arranged a lunch for them in London (Crane Log 277-78), politely dismissing himself at 4:00 p.m. so the two would have time to get acquainted. Although we do not know what the instant friends discussed during their all-night trek through the streets of London, they ...

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