Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Crane | 2004 | Caroline Kepnes | Buy |
The Classic StoryTellers series entry by Caroline Kepnes is a 2004 literary study of Stephen Crane, the American author best known for The Red Badge of Courage. This was one of Kepnes’s earliest published works, written well before the You series made her a bestselling novelist. The book provides analysis of Crane’s fiction and his place in American literary history.
It is a niche title and very different from the thrillers Kepnes would later become famous for, but it shows her long-standing interest in how writers build characters and tell stories. For readers curious about Kepnes’s literary roots, this early work is an interesting footnote in her career.