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Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire by Paul Sorrentino (review)

Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire by Paul Sorrentino (review) REVIEWS Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire, by Paul Sorrentino. Cambridge, ma: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. x + 494 pp. Cloth, $39.95; E-book, $39.95. Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire has been a long time coming. The work Paul Sorrentino accomplished beforehand amply prepared him to write this biography, as there may be few better ways to prepare for writing a literary biography than editing an author's letters. Sorrentino first established his scholarly reputation as the co-editor, with Stanley Wertheim, of The Correspondence of Stephen Crane (1988). The oddest aspect of this edition is its appendix, which reprints letters known solely from Thomas Beer's Stephen Crane (1923), the first book-length biography of Crane and for decades the starting point for further research. Questioning the authorship of these letters, Wertheim and Sorrentino removed them from the chronological order of their edition but hesitated to exclude them altogether. The year after Correspondence, Sorrentino organized "Stephen Crane: A Revaluation," a conference held at Blacksburg, Virginia. At this conference, Wertheim presented new findings, convincingly demonstrating that Beer had indeed fabricated those letters. I remember the conference well. Then a graduate student at the University of Delaware, I had driven http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in American Naturalism University of Nebraska Press

Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire by Paul Sorrentino (review)

Hayes, Kevin J.
Studies in American Naturalism , Volume 9 (2) – May 20, 2014
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REVIEWS Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire, by Paul Sorrentino. Cambridge, ma: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. x + 494 pp. Cloth, $39.95; E-book, $39.95. Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire has been a long time coming. The work Paul Sorrentino accomplished beforehand amply prepared him to write this biography, as there may be few better ways to prepare for writing a literary biography than editing an author's letters. Sorrentino first established his scholarly reputation as the co-editor, with Stanley Wertheim, of The Correspondence of Stephen Crane (1988). The oddest aspect of this edition is its appendix, which reprints letters known solely from Thomas Beer's Stephen Crane (1923), the first book-length biography of Crane and for decades the starting point for further research. Questioning the authorship of these letters, Wertheim and Sorrentino removed them from the chronological order of their edition but hesitated to exclude them altogether. The year after Correspondence, Sorrentino organized "Stephen Crane: A Revaluation," a conference held at Blacksburg, Virginia. At this conference, Wertheim presented new findings, convincingly demonstrating that Beer had indeed fabricated those letters. I remember the conference well. Then a graduate student at the University of Delaware, I had driven

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