To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means ... a doting aunt and a young cousin, Virginia, whom, according to then-common practice, Poe married when she was 13.

On Oct. 3, 1849, American poet Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious ... though no one knows for sure. After his cousin-wife died of tuberculosis in 1847, Poe’s behavior only got more erratic ...

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer ... After all, he did marry his first cousin, who was half his age. He also had an ...

More recently, though, the 2017 PBS American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, downplayed the tortured image. “He comes off instead as a smart guy who wanted to become famous ...

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In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...