“I shall be a littérateur, at least, all my life; nor would I abandon the hopes which still lead me on for all the gold in California.”
About Edgar Allan Poe
19 January 1809–7 October 1849
Edgar Allan Poe stands as one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in American literature, a writer whose troubled life and haunting works have captivated readers for nearly two centuries. Born Edgar Poe on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, he would live only forty years before his mysterious death…