Background
As a student at the University of Copenhagen he began writing short stories and critical essays, publishing in 1879 his first novel, HaabløseHaablose SlœgterSlogter ("Hopeless Generations"). His principal works are Ved Vejen (1886) ("By the Wayside"), Stuk (1887) ("Stucco"), Tine (1889), MikaëlMikael (1904), and De uden FœdrelandFodreland (1906) (Denied a Country, 1927). Bang is also the author of a number of short stories, highly impressionistic. His work as a whole, as well as his personality, was permeated with an intense feeling of depression and frustration and by a unique understanding of the "lonely souls along life's highway." Forever restless, Bang in 1912 set out on a trip around the world. He died suddenly at Ogden, Utah, Jan. 28, 1912.