This Coventry resident has visited every Edgar Allan Poe museum and historical site in the United States. Here's what he ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This collection is a great start, as it compiles some of Poe's greatest short stories and poems, along ...

When done well, the brief life gives its audience an intellectually plausible take on a famous person that’s also fun to read. Still, the form’s chief advantage — its brevity — cannot help leaving key ...

When a teenage Edgar Allan Poe moved to Boston to find work in 1827, he was eager to launch his literary career, re-establish his roots in the city of his birth and distance himself from his foster ...

Once upon a gray day dreary, the writer staggered, weak and weary. He collapsed on a Baltimore sidewalk, never to fully regain consciousness. Four days later, on Oct. 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died in ...

A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's first book, "Tamerlane and Other Poems," has sold for $662,500, smashing the previous record price for American literature. A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's first book ...

In 1839, Edgar Allan Poe accepted a somewhat sketchy writing job: remixing and condensing an existing book, Thomas Wyatt's Manual of Conchology, into a cheaper version that would be useful to students ...

Today in literary history: On Oct. 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40 in Baltimore, four days after being discovered at a polling place “in great distress.” Poe was in many ways the first ...

A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s first book has sold for $662,500 at a New York auction. The copy of “Tamerlane and Other Poems” had been estimated to sell for between $500,000 and $700,000 at ...

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In the long and fruitful afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe, the city of Boston is closer to celebrating the author as one of its own. The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston is hoping to install a bronze ...