Edgar Allan Poe does not suffer from a shortage of biographers, and Richard Kopley pays tribute to two of them: Arthur Hobson Quinn and Kenneth Silverman. So, what is there to add? The short answer, ...

Edgar Allan Poe was more than a tormented poetic and literary genius writing macabre stories of gloom; he also was a husband, a companion and a friend. “He was a social person. He wasn’t some ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means, almost syllogistically, that any biography of him — even one as thoughtful and compassionate as Richard Kopley’s “Edgar ...

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, poet and literary critic. The Boston native only lived until he was 40 years ...

Poe coined the phrase “the imp of the perverse” in an 1845 story of that title about an almost perfect murder. Illustration by Sandra Dionisi Elisabeth Becker went all the way from Wisconsin ...

It is nearly fifty years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe, and his writings are now for the first time gathered together with an attempt at accuracy and completeness. The alleged reason for this ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...

Sam Spade, Charlie's Angels, Nero Wolfe, NYPD Blue, Sherlock Holmes, Easy Rawlins, Chinatown, Miss Marple, The Silence of the Lambs, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Precious Ramotswe, even Scooby ...