He wasn’t some disembodied brain floating through the cosmos. He had friends,” said Richard A. Kopley, author of “Edgar Allan Poe: A Life,” recently published by the University of Virginia Press. “He ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

So, it was quite easy to assemble 75 Edgar Allan Poe quotes to demonstrate his thoughts about life. I remember reading Poe’s ...

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 ... lurked much closer to human life ⁠— at birth, Americans ...

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 ...

A $10 million project to double the size of the Edgar Allan ... of Poe Homes, the aging and decayed 288-unit public housing ...

The Edgar Allan Poe ... star anise. If Poe is known for anything, he is known for his magnum opus, the narrative poem, The Raven. Dustin Lafluer brought Poe’s masterpiece to life in this gothic ...