Edgar Allan Poe
Poe still haunts us, evermore
Edgar Allan Poe was widely dismissed as a second-rate writer and immoral drunkard when he died in 1849 at age 40. But in death his literary reputation grew. Now come two more mysteries that pay homage to the real-life writer: The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard and Matthew Pearl's The Poe Shadow.
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My first encounter with Edger Allen Poe was reading "The Pit and The Pendulum" and "The Raven" when I was in grade school. I was stunned by his detail and emotional movement through his words. He was one of the main reasons I started writing poetry. I think the fact that you can devise what type of life he led by his writing tells you how creative his writing really was.