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Stephen Crane and the burden of one literary masterpiece.(Books)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19980823
Author:West, Woody

There are few American writers with so brief a creative span whose reputations remain as sterling as Stephen Crane's. His literary footprint nearly a century after his death is essentially dependent on one book, "The Red Badge of Courage," a novel of enduring achievement. Were it not for the account of the travails of Pvt. Henry Fleming in an unspecified regiment in an unnamed battle in the Civil War, as related by a very young writer who at that point had never been near a battle, Crane might be an footnote in American literary history.

Much of what he feverishly wrote ...

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