Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
by Paul Auster
✩ Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography
An award-winning biography of the author of The Red Badge of Courage, written by the celebrated novelist Paul Auster. Crane published prolifically during his short life, including poetry, fiction and war reportage, before his death at 28 from tuberculosis. The New Yorker described Burning Boy as “a labor of love of a rare kind in contemporary letters.”
