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"The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1898, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent.
— Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" [108] Given $700 in Spanish gold by the Bacheller-Johnson syndicate to work as a war correspondent in Cuba as the Spanish–American War was pending, the 25-year-old Crane left New York on November 27, 1896, on a train bound for Jacksonville, Florida . [ 109 ]
SS Commodore was an American steamboat that was wrecked off the coast of Florida on 2 January 1897, while en route to Cuba.The event was immortalized when passenger and author Stephen Crane, who was traveling as a war correspondent for the Bacheller-Johnson syndicate, wrote the classic short story "The Open Boat" about his experience.
Pages in category "Short stories by Stephen Crane" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... The Open Boat This page was last ...
Short stories by Stephen Crane (3 P) ... The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure This page was last edited on 27 January 2013, at 05:26 (UTC). ...
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The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1898. —. ... Stephen Crane: A Critical Bibliography. Iowa State University.
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