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Biography of the nineteenth-century American author famous for detective stories, horror stories, and poetry.

Examines the life of the writer whose work remains among the most memorable in the history of American literature.

Chronicles the troubled life of the nineteenth-century author, focusing on the haunting nature of his work.

An illustrated biography of nineteenth-century American author Edgar Allan Poe that includes a chronology and a selected bibliography.

Filled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe's ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia family who worked as tombstone merchants. In 1827 he enlisted in the Army and subsequently failed out of West Point. His first published story, The Raven, was a huge success, but his joy was overshadowed by the death of his wife. Poe devoted his life...