Burning boy, p.100
Burning Boy, page 100
My list of thank-yous is short, but my gratitude to the ones who have helped me along the way runs deep.
Working on this book has taken me into a new, often bewildering country, and for the first time in what has now been half a century of writing and publishing, I have shared the manuscript with others before it was finished, wanting to know if the project made any sense to them and if they were still with me as the pages continued to pile up, far exceeding the bounds of what I had originally announced would be a short book. To those three amigos—Barbara Jones of Henry Holt in New York, Walter Donohue of Faber and Faber in London, and my longtime agent Carol Mann—thank you for reassuring me that I had not gone off the deep end.
Thanks as well to Paul Sorrentino, a stranger I reached out to in early 2018, hoping to make contact with someone in the Crane universe. Contrary to my expectations, he did not ignore my letter. Even more encouraging, he did not treat me as a barbarian novelist threatening to invade his kingdom but welcomed me in as a brother lunatic, a member of the tribe. We have become friends since then, and not only has he put me up at his house in Blacksburg, Virginia, for a long weekend of discussions about our favorite subject, he has answered questions and talked out problems with me in numerous telephone conversations and letters. For no other reason than goodwill and a shared desire to promote Crane’s work, he has carefully vetted every word I have written, fifty or sixty pages at a time over the past two years, pointing out factual errors whenever I have made them and preventing me from going off track any number of times. His patience and generosity have kept me standing as I blundered my way forward, and without his help, it is hard to imagine how I could have reached the end.
He is also the person who put me in touch with Elizabeth Friedmann, who is hard at work on a new biography of Cora Crane. I called her about a year ago, and since then we have shared manuscripts, ideas, and speculations in a series of lively telephone conversations and letters that have greatly expanded my knowledge of Crane’s remarkable wife and given me a new friend. It was Elizabeth Friedmann who in turn put me in touch with Kathryn Hilt, another Crane scholar, who confirmed that the murky episode I was investigating at the time was indeed murky, and I thank Elizabeth Friedmann for that as well as all the other things she has done to help improve this book.
Last of all, but in fact first of all and above all the others, deepest thanks to Siri Hustvedt, who for the past forty years has been the first and most important reader of everything I have written. People say that writers should never marry each other because … because it is impossible for two writers to live together under the same roof. They are wrong.
INDEX
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Abbott, Bud
“Above All Things” (essay; aka “The Mexican Lower Classes”)
Academy
Active Service (novel)
Addams, Jane
“Adventures of a Novelist” (article)
“Ah, God, the way your little finger moved” (poem)
Alamo
Alger, Russell A.
Allen, Viola
“All in a Lifetime” (Hawkins)
Almayer’s Folly (Conrad)
American Federation of Labor (AF of L)
American Mercury
American Press Association
American Revolution
Amerika (Kafka)
Anderson, Hank
Anderson, Sherwood
And Then There Were None (Christie)
“And the sins of the fathers” (poem)
“Angel Child, The” (short story)
Anglo-Saxon Review
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Anthony, Susan B.
Antietam, Battle of
anti-Semitism
Apaches
Appleton, D., and Company
Arena
Arnold, Edward
“Art in Kansas City” (humor piece)
Arts and Crafts movement
Arts of Intoxication (Jonathan Crane)
Art Students League building
roommates in works of Crane
present location of
Asbury, Francis
Asbury Park
Crane’s early journalism on
Crane’s house in
Asbury Park Daily Journal
Asbury Park Journal
Asian Indians
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
Associated Press
“As to Payment of the Rent” (short story)
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
“At Clancy’s Wake” (mini-playlet)
Athenaeum
Atlanta Journal
Atlantic Monthly
“Auction, The” (short story)
Austen, Alice
Authors Club
Avory, Horace
Awkward Age, The (James)
Babcock, Pop
“Baby Stories” (short story trio)
Bacheller, Irving
Conrad and
death of Crane and
later career of
Bacheller Syndicate
Crane’s financial arrangements with
Cuban stories and
New York stories and
Red Badge serialized by
Western stories and
Balkans
“Ballydehob” (sketch)
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore strike
Balzac, Honoré de
Bangs, John Kendrick
Barnes, Djuna
Barnum, P. T.
Barr, Robert
Barrett, Lillian
Barrie, J. M.
Barry, John D.
Barrymore, Ethel
Barton, Clara
Bass, John
“Battle of Forty Fort” (short story)
Battle with the Slum, The (Riis)
“Battles and Leaders of the Civil War” (Century Magazine articles)
Baudelaire, Charles
“Bear and Panther” (sketch)
Beardsley, Aubrey
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (Oates)
Becker, Charles
Beckett, Samuel
Beery, Wallace
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Benchley, Robert
Bennet, Thomas (great-great-grandfather)
Bergman, Ingmar
Berkman, Alexander
Bernstein, Eduard
Berryman, John
Bible
Book of John
Book of Matthew
Bierce, Ambrose
Bierstadt, Albert
Big Chicago May
Billy the Kid
Binghamton Asylum for the Chronic Insane
black Americans
“Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” and
Crane’s parents and, in Port Jervis
Crane’s portrayal of
Crane’s racial attitudes and
lynching of, in Port Jervis
Monster and
as Pullman car porters
Red Badge and
Spanish-American War and
“Black Dog, The” (short story)
Black Forest sanatorium (Badenweiler)
Black Riders, The (poetry collection)
critical response to
impact of
Monster and
published
written
“Black riders came from the sea” (poem)
Blackwell’s Island (later Welfare; Roosevelt Island)
Blackwood, William, & Sons
Blackwood’s Magazine
Blake, William
Blakelock, Ralph Albert
Blavatsky, Madame
“Blood of the Martyr, The” (playlet)
Bloomington (South Bound Brook), New Jersey
“Blue Badge of Cowardice, The” (war dispatch)
“Blue Hotel, The” (short story)
as essential work
published
written
Bly, Nellie (Elizabeth Cochran)
Boer War
Bogart, Humphrey
Bookman
Boon (Wells)
Borland, Armistead “Tommie”
Bosch, Hieronymus
Boston Herald
Boston Record
Boston Traveler
Bowen, Frederick
Bowery
Bowie, James
Bradley, James A.
Bragdon, Claude
on Crane as “burning boy”
Brains
Brandeis, Louis
Brandon, Dottie
Brandon, Mr.
Brandon, Stella
Brandon family
Brede Place, Sussex
“Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The” (short story)
American rights and
as essential work
“Moonlight on the Snow” and
published
written
“Broken-Down Van, The” (sketch)
Brontë, Emily
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooks, Sydney
Brotherton, Lyda
Brown, Curtis
Brown, Harry
Brown, Mrs. (English teacher)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Bryan, William Jennings
Büchner, Georg
Buckley, James M.
Buffalo Enquirer
Buffalo Evening News
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Burke, Lily
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Burns, Robert
Bushick, Frank
Button, Lucius L.
Byrnes, (police superintendent)
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Cahan, Abraham
Camus, Albert
Capron, Allyn
“Captain, The” (short story)
“Captured Mausers for Volunteers” (war dispatch)
Carey, Michael J.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Carlton, Samuel (pseudonym of Crane)
Carlton, Will
Carmencita
Carmichael, Otto
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnes, Cecil
Carnot, Marie François Sadie
Carpenter, Nellie Crouse. See Crouse, Nellie
Carpenter, Samuel E.
Carr, Louis
“Carriage-Lamps, The” (short story)
Carroll, Lewis
Carroll, William W.
Bowery adventure with Crane and
Carter, Imogene (pseudonym of Cora)
Cary, Henry N.
Cassatt, Mary
Castro, Fidel
Cather, Willa
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Century Magazine
Cercle Français de l’Harmonie
Cervera y Topete, Pascual
Chambers, Julius
Chancellorsville, Battle of
Chandler, Raymond
Chanler, William
“Chanting of flowers, The” (poem)
Chap-Book
Chapman, Captain
Charles “Chatters” (servant)
“Chased by a Big ‘Spanish Man-o’-War’” (war dispatch)
Chekhov, Anton
Cheyenne Indians
Chicago strike
Chicago Tribune
children’s rights
Chinatown (Mott Street)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Chinese immigrants
Chopin, Kate
Chouans (Balzac)
Christian Advocate
Christian Science
Christie, Agatha
“Christmas Dinner Won in Battle, A” (short story)
Church, Frederic Edwin
Churchill, Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph
Churchill, Lord Randolph
Churchill, Winston
City of Washington (ship)
“City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers, The” (short story)
Civil War. See also Red Badge of Courage
Crane stories set in
Red Badge and lack of specifics on
Spanish-American War and
Civil War veterans
“Clan of No-Name, The” (short story)
Clark, Dora (aka Ruby Young, Dora Wilkins)
Claverack College and Hudson River Institute
Cleveland, Grover
coal-barons and brokers
coal mines
Crane reports on, with Linson
Crane’s family stocks in
strike of 1877 and
Cody, Buffalo Bill
Coeur d’Alene silver miners’ strike
College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia)
Collier, Robert
Collier’s Weekly
Columbus, Christopher, bones of
Comédie Humaine (Balzac)
Coming Up the Road (Bacheller)
Commodore (steamship), sinking of
Conan Doyle, Arthur
“Concerning the English ‘Academy’” (literary essay)
“Coney Island’s Failing Days” (sketch) 53
Conlin, Police Chief
Conrad, Borys
Conrad, Jessie George
Conrad, Joseph
Cora and
on Crane
Crane’s essay on
Crane’s influence on
death of Crane and
dog for son Borys and
friendship with Crane
on “Man and Some Others”
on “Price of the Harness”
Constantine, Crown Prince of Greece
Contacts (Brown)
Continental Congress
Conway, Martin
Cooper, James Fenimore
Copeland and Day
Cornell, Magistrate
Cortelyou, George B.
Cosmopolitan
Cosmos Club
Costello, Lou
Courtney, W. L.
Crane, Agnes Elisabeth (sister)
death of
Crane, Anna (wife of Townley), death of
Crane, Cora Howorth Stewart Taylor
appearance of
background of
Black Forest sanatorium, and final days with Crane
Brede Place household and
Brede Place move and
Brede Place party and
canteen filter project of
cares for Kate Lyon’s children
Conrad and
Court
Crane’s appearance and
Crane’s brother William and
Crane’s family and
Crane’s final illness
as Crane’s hidden strength
Crane’s stay Cuba and
Crane’s will and
death of
death of Crane and
death of Frederic and
diary of Greco-Turkish War and
divorce sought by, from Stewart
finances in England and
friend Charlotte Ruedy and
Greco-Turkish War and, “Imogene Carter” pseudonym
handles Crane’s correspondence
Helen Crane’s visit to Brede Place and
Henry James and
horror of domestic life and
Hotel de Dreme and
Howells and
influence of, on Crane’s dress
Kate Lyon aided by, after death of Frederic
marriage to McNeil and
marriage to Stewart and
marriage to Thomas Murphy and
meeting and early romance with Crane and
meets Lady Randolph Churchill
notes for biography on Crane
Pinker and
portrayal of, in Crane’s fiction
Richard Harding Davis on
resumes life as Cora Taylor, after death of Crane
romance with Stivers
romance with Thompson
Scovel and
shipwreck of Commodore and
travels to Ireland with Crane
Trudeau’s letter to, on Crane’s health
war correspondent photograph of
writes “European Letters” column
Crane, Edmund (brother)
Cora and
on Crane
Crane and daughters of
Crane’s departure for Greece and
Crane’s early will and
Crane’s last visit to
Crane’s letters to, from England
Crane’s stays with
Crane visits, after Commodore wreck
death of Crane and
death of father and
death of son and
financial aid to Crane and
Crane, Elizabeth (wife of George)
Crane, George (brother)
Crane’s early will and
death of Crane and
Crane, Helen (daughter of William)
visits Brede Place in Crane’s final year
Crane, Helen R. (daughter of Wilbur)
on Crane and his mother
on Crane in Cuba
on Crane in New York
on Crane’s lack of laughter
on Crane’s rebellion vs. bourgeois milieu
memoir by
Crane, Jonathan (ancestor)
Crane, Jonathan Townley (father)
background of
Crane on
death of
Pennington Seminary and
religion and
Crane, Luther (brother)
death of
Monster and
Crane, Mary Helen “Nellie” (sister)
Crane, Mary Helen Peck (mother)
appearance of
background of
Crane’s education and
Crane’s writing as child and
death of
education of
George’s Mother and
house of
religion and
WCTU and
Wyoming illustrations and
Crane, Mary (wife of Edmund)
Crane, Stephen I (ancestor, founder of Elizabethtown)
Crane, Stephen II (ancestor, American Revolutionary)
Crane, Stephen. See also specific works
American landscape of 1871–1900 and
appearance of
appearance of, in Cuba
Appleton as publisher of
Arthur Waugh on, in London
artistic aims of, and “beautiful war”
artistic aims of, and truth
artistic principles of
Asbury Park house of
Authors Club and
Barry and poetry of
Barry on Maggie and
