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World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first-hand. So true was his portrait of a young man who runs from his first confrontation with battle that Civil War veterans argued about whose regiment Crane had been in. Considered by H. G. Wells as beyond dispute, the best writer of our generation, Crane was also famous in his time as an unforgettable personality, an Adonis with tawny hair and gray-blue eyes, that Willa Cather described as full of luster and changing lights. A lover of women and truth at any cost, Crane, in his short life, paid dearly for both. He alienated the New York police when he testified against a policeman on behalf of a prostitute falsely accused of soliciting, forcing him to live the rest of his short life as an expatriate in England. Reporting on the Spanish American War, Crane described the Rough Riders blundering into a trap after arriving in Cuba, infuriating Roosevelt. He died tragically young, leaving behind a handful of fine short stories, including The Open Boat and The Blue Hotel , along with war reporting, novels, and poetry.

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Linda H. Davis is the author of three biographies: Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life, Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane, and Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White. Her e-book, Autism on the Farm: A Story of Triumph, Possibility, and a Place Called Bittersweet, was published by The Miniver Press. She was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1953, but has lived in Massachusetts most of her life. Married to Chuck Yanikoski, she is the mother of two, the mother-in-law of one, and the grandmother of three. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN.com, Granta, the New Yorker, and other publications. Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life will be rereleased, with a new introduction by the author. Ann Marie Lee has worked extensively as an actress in the theater-from Broadway National Tours to regional theater, ranging from classical to contemporary to musicals-as well as in guest and recurring roles in television and film. She has recorded numerous audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award.

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