Edgar Allan Poe
1809 – 1849 American writer, poet
The master of the macabre who invented the detective story.
- Religion
- Nominally raised Anglican; his beliefs were unsettled, and his late work leaned toward a cosmic, pantheistic mysticism.
- Affiliations
- None.
Poe perfected the Gothic tale of terror and the poem of haunting music, from The Raven to The Fall of the House of Usher. He invented the modern detective story and helped shape science fiction. His theories of the short story and poetry influenced writers on both sides of the Atlantic.
In the timeline
- 1847 George Lippard publishes Washington and his Generals mentioned