Stephen Crane, Born November 1st, 1871 into a middle class New Jersey family, he was the youngest of fourteen children (About Stephen Crane 1). Brought up to be a baseball player by his father, a Methodist minister, the Crane family re-located to upstate New York (About Stephen Crane 1). Stephen attended Lafayette College, and Syracuse University to play baseball (About Stephen Crane 1). Crane realized he could not make a living with his baseball, so he turned back to …showed first 75 words of 878 total…

…showed last 75 words of 878 total…not quite 30 years old (Anderson 440). Even though Crane had passed on, his beliefs and influences still lived in every author, poet, or writer, who begins to layout a story. As the years Bickerstaff 5 went on, critics began to critique his writings, and found out the key. “Stephen Crane had an unusual naturalistic approach to writing” (Binder 174). Stephen Crane is credited with one of the most influential parts of writing; he was the pioneer of Realism.