I want to post some of Edgar Allan Poe's biography and other writing on here and maybe a picture of him.
Poe has a museum that I hope to visit one day in Richmond Virginia that has some of his things and his original works.
Poe was considered part of the romantic movement in literary history and he passed away in 1849.
" known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] 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." Wikipedia.com
Poe was an orphan adopted by the Allan family after the death of his mother and his father abandoned the family. He was born in Massachusetts. Poe shortly attended college, but like many people today, he had to leave because of money problems. He then became a literary critic. Poe's wife, Sarah Elmira Royster, died because she had TB 2 years after "The Raven" was published in 1845. Poe himself may have died from drug and alcohol abuse and heart complications, but his cause of death is formally unknown.
http://poestories.com
The above websites has links to all of Poe's writing and a more complete biography of him.
"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."
I put some of his quotes on here from, http://poestories.com
