“[The] environment is an amazing thing in the world and often shapes life regardless.” (“Though it is the origins…”) Stephen Crane was influenced to write his 1893 short story, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, by his religious family, the secrecy of publishing a novel that reveals reality, and the impurity of the real world and from the impact of the needy urban landscapes that ended realism and began naturalism. Starting in Stephen Crane's early life, he was the last child of thirteen other siblings. Having been raised by a Methodist family on both sides, Stephan's parents devoted much of their time to writing religious articles. He also had two journalist brothers, one of whom worked as a reporter. Growing up with several writers in his family greatly influenced Crane in the future as he became a writer of several novels. ("Biography of Stephen Crane") Crane first attended the Hudson River Institute in New York, then enrolled at Lafayette College studying mining engineering. Having not even completed his first semester, he left and began taking classes at Syracuse University. During his first semester there, he passed one class out of the six courses he took. He earned an A in English Literature and this was also the time he was writing for the New York Tribune. Although he lost the position the following year, journalism remained a key supporting principle for his successful future. ("Biography of Stephen Crane") In the year 1893 the novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets was written, ready to be published. This became almost impossible because publishers considered it too risky and did not see fit to make it public for reading. Being only 22, Crane financed the...... middle of paper......rrhage on December 29, recovered sufficiently, in January, starting work on a new novel, The O' Ruddy. ("Death") When Crane planned to travel as a correspondent to Gibraltar to write sketches from St. Helena, he suffered two more troubling hemorrhages in late March and early April. His friend Conrad, after visiting him for the last time, remarked that Crane's "ravaged face was enough to tell me that it was the most hopeless of all hopes." On June 5, 1900, Stephan Crane died at the young age of 28 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. Even after his death his publications continued to be read and appreciated. The variety of careers in which Crane was involved, as historian, journalist, poet, and author of novels and short stories, helped him achieve all of his many successions throughout his life. ("Death”)