Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19, 1809 and died 40 years later on October 7, 1849 Poe was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States, and of American literature. He was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. which led him to self-medicating and becoming of the first popularized alcoholics in western literature.

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