Deola Morrell-Thompson is a life-long teacher of English, Speech Education, Theatre and Dance. She attended the University of Nebraska, completing coursework toward her Ph.D. in English, emphasis on 19th-century American Literature. She began research for this novel at her home in Sumner, NE where she resides with her husband and continues to teach students struggling to succeed in Grand Island, NE.
This novel, Rolling Stock, is a meta-fiction juxtaposing excerpts from several of the author Stephen Crane’s works with invented lives of his characters. Stephen Crane died at the age of 29 in 1900, having lived a full life of advocacy for poor and disenfranchised American. Ernest Hemingway once s...