Abstract
THAT STEPHEN CRANE is still a somewhat mythical figure is due largely to a scarcity of biographical knowledge. Seekers after facts have found relatively few to light the years that precede the appearance of The Red Badge of Courage. Crane's biographer, Mr. Thomas Beer, devotes barely a score of pages to his subject's first twenty years, and other writers chiefly embellish the better known incidents. Specifically, the years i888 to I892 are particularly shadowy, and they constitute the period of Crane's preparatory school and college attendance. It is the purpose of this paper to present certain new material dealing with these years. Not only do the findings amplify what is known of Crane's education, but they sharply modify the present accepted view of Crane as a student-satirist of war.
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