About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Edgar Allan Poe bibliography, The Raven in popular culture, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Holley Chivers, Edgar Allan Poe and music, Edgar Allan Poe in popular culture, C. Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe in television and film, Johnny Poe, Graham's Magazine, Frances Sargent Osgood, William Henry Leonard Poe, Sarah Elmira Royster, Edgar Award, The Stylus, Poe Toaster, Sarah Helen Whitman, Thomas Dunn English, Eliza Poe, Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, Edgar Allan Poe Museum, The Death of Poe, William Evans Burton, Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Charles Frederick Briggs, George Rex Graham, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Mary Rogers, Southern Literary Messenger, Broadway Journal, Hervey Allen, Neilson Poe, John P. Poe, Sr., Dark romanticism, Shadow of the Raven, Baltimore Saturday Visiter, The American Review: A Whig Journal, Harry Clarke - Darkness In Light, New York Mirror, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Closed on Account of Rabies, The Black Cat, David Poe, Jr., Evermore, Kenneth Silverman, Samuel Poe, Les histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Poe. Excerpt: Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned young wh...
