num_pages: 800
description: A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNERA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.With Burning Boy  celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage  who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories novellas poems journalism and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight.Austers probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonvilles most elegant bawdyhouse endures a shipwreck results in his near drowning he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War and then he relocates to England where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic early death.In Burning Boy  Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also casting a dazzled eye on Cranes astonishing originality and productivity provides uniquely knowing insight into Cranes creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiencesthe dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.
language: English
title: Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.