A Mouthful of Dust: A Portrait of a Writer in Search of His Own Red Badge of Courage

Through historical fiction Douglas Savage has painted a psychological picture of novelist Stephen Crane. Against the backdrop of the lush countryside and treachery of Cuba just after the Spanish–American War, A Mouthful of Dust does what no biographer can do—examine the heart and soul of a twenty-seven-year-old writer grappling with his own death.