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Edgar Allan Poe
AuthorBooks · Second hand1809-1849
Nineteenth-century American writer, poet and literary critic, master of horror tales and father of modern detective fiction.
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Curiosities about Edgar Allan Poe
Birth
1809
Death
1849
First book
1827
Years writing
199
He invented the modern detective story with The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) and his sleuth Auguste Dupin.
He published his first book of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems, anonymously at the age of 18.
He married his cousin Virginia Clemm when she was only 13.
He died at 40 in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances after being found delirious and in someone else's clothes.
For decades his Baltimore grave received secret visits from the 'Poe Toaster', who left roses and cognac.