:: Hart Crane was born in 1899 in Garrettsville, Ohio. He began writing poetry as a teenager, and over strong opposition from his father eventually moved to New York City to establish himself as a poet. His work, including the book-length poem The Bridge quickly guaranteed him a place among the most significant American poets of the twentieth century; his homosexuality and his heavy drinking tinged his life with both glamor and tragedy. Crane committed suicide at the age of thirty-three.