Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, poet and literary critic. The Boston native only lived until he was 40 years ...

Edgar Allan Poe was more than a tormented poetic and literary genius writing macabre stories of gloom; he also was a husband, a companion and a friend. “He was a social person. He wasn’t some ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means ... Poe would continue his army career, as well as his writing.” And by adhering so strictly to chronology, Kopley opens ...

Edgar Allan Poe does not suffer from a shortage of biographers ... And he could do so with increasing resonance in his writing and, on occasion, with a noble effort to attain consolation. Poe would ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...

Sylvester Stallone once wanted Robert Downey Jr. for his Edgar Allan Poe biopic, but he felt the timing wasn’t right—keep reading to know why he waited!

With “Edgar Allan Poe: A Life” Mr. Kopley ... Mr. Kopley endeavors to link Poe’s life to his work, to show how in his writing he ventilated private pain (and sometimes animus) while at ...