Badge of CourageWorld famous at twenty four, brilliant and reckless, hard living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first hand. So true was his portrait of a young man who runs from his first confrontation with battle that Civil War veterans argued about whose regiment Crane had been in. Considered by H. G. Wells as "beyond dispute, the best writer of our generation," Crane was also famous in his time as an