** WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY **

'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year

'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker

'Brilliant . . . Remarkable.' New York Journal of Books

Stephen Crane produced an avalanche of sublime literature before he succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. Yet his short life was an eventful one: from crushing poverty as a newcomer to Manhattan and his near-drowning in a shipwreck, to his stint as a war correspondent in Cuba and international fame at twenty-five, to his final years in England and friendships with Joseph Conrad and Henry James. In Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster delves deeply into the story of Crane's tumultuous and dramatic life.

A thrilling literary biography of Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, by one of our greatest living writers, Paul Auster.

About the Author

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize (4321), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages.

Book Information
ISBN 9780571353361
Author Paul Auster
Format Paperback
Page Count 800
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 567g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 33mm