Started: 1/15/2026
Finished: DNF
Year: 2021
Pages: 738
Genre: biography
Grade: D
Reason for reading: goodreads.com giveaway
Type: hardcover
Blurb (from Amazon): "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.
"Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: 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 Jacksonville’s 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."
Opinion: Auster seems a little bit obsessed with Crane's life and writings. I, like most people my age and older, read "The Red Badge of Courage" in highschool or middle school. I don't remember much of it but I know that I didn't hate it like so many others have over the years. Just too long of a biography.
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