Steohen Crane and friend horsing around on NYC rooftop 1900.
Bill Peschel's blog is consistently one of the most intelligent and entertaining sites around. As a Crane fanatic, I wanted to share this from Peschel's blog.
Bill:
There’s no other history about it; it’s just a neat picture. I used it to link to an essay I wrote a couple years ago: Stephen Crane: I Fought the Law and the Law Won, about the time he squared off against the NYPD to defend a prostitute who was being hassled by a street cop.
The cop later was executed at Sing Sing for murder — the first NYPD cop to hit the hot seat — and that incident showed up in “The Great Gatsby,” as the essay says.
I thought it was a cool of Crane to do that. It showed a sense of justice and courage, and it ended up costing him, because he had to leave New York City when he was humiliated at a trial when the police investigated his background and smeared his reputation.
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3 comments:
Stephen Crane's definitely one of the greats - The Monster and The Blue Hotel are some of the greatest woirks of fiction ever written. Thanks for posting>>>>>>>>>>>>
Reminds me. I need to include Crane in my survey of early-early western writers.
I thought I'd seen all the photos of Crane, but that's a new one on me. It's certainly Crane okay and the other man, from the inscription, is his friend the painter CK Linson. Probably taken around 1893.
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