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Edgar Allan Poe

💡 Interesting Facts

  • a poem by Edward Coote Pinkney, a failed lawyer and former Navy midshipman, was used by Edgar Allan Poe to woo Sarah Helen Whitman?
  • William Henry Leonard Poe wrote a short story about the failed relationship of his younger brother Edgar Allan Poe with Sarah Elmira Royster?
  • although the Park Theatre was considered the highest-class playhouse in New York, Edgar Allan Poe criticized it for being infested by rats?
  • in "Thou Art the Man", one of Edgar Allan Poe's (pictured) lesser-known detective stories, ventriloquism is used to expose a murderer?
  • the unsolved murder of Mary Rogers was fictionalized as "The Mystery of Marie Roget" by Edgar Allan Poe?
  • Anne Lynch Botta (pictured) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to literary society at her receptions?
  • Knickerbocker Epes Sargent (pictured) wrote Velasco for Ellen Tree, only to have Edgar Allan Poe damn it with faint praise?
  • Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism?
  • Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story "Bon-Bon" features an amateur philosopher who meets a soul-eating devil?
  • Edgar Allan Poe satirized the concept of a self-made man in his story "The Business Man" using a character that makes his fortune cutting the tails off cats?
  • Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City?
  • Edgar Allan Poe's 1848 essay Eureka presaged the Big Bang theory and black holes?
  • "The Iron Shroud" by William Mudford influenced Edgar Allan Poe's writing of the "Pit and the Pendulum"?