Stephen Crane (1871-1900), American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, best known for his novels Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) and The Red Badge of Courage (1895) and the short stories The Open Boat, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, and The Blue Hotel.
The Red Badge of Courage has long been considered the first great amoderna novel of war by an American (Alfred Kazin)