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, ...

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 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 ...

It is nearly fifty years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe ... A part of the disfavor with which Poe is regarded is due to Dr. Griswold's biography; for of all men Poe had best reason to pray ...

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It is well that a writer of such canonical importance should have a definitive biography, and Richard Kopley certainly seems the man to write it. With “Edgar Allan Poe: A Life” Mr. Kopley ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...

The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy is a distinctive theatrical experience that stages four of Poe's dark tales, "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," "The Raven," and "The Masque of Red Death" as ...