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Sign in to Harper'sStephen Crane was born on November 1, 1871, just after his father, the Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane, had finished writing a letter. “I was interrupted yesterday,” Reverend Crane wrote the following day in an addendum, “and did not send this to the Post Office.” Stephen’s older brother Edmund had been dispatched to send the letter, and he fell down a flight of stairs in the process. “Mrs. Crane is still alarmed for Ed's knee which continues [to be] painful,” Reverend…
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