Edgar Allan Poe
By: Davide Caramellino
Background info
- Born on January 19, 1809
- In Boston
- Father of the Detective fiction genre
- Orphaned at a young age
- University of Virginia
- Wife dies of tuberculosis
- Married his 13 year old cousin
- Brother died of tuberculosis
- Later his second wife died of tuberculosis
- Began drinking
- Died on October 7, 1849.
Literary style
- Gothic
- Dark romanticism genre
- Questioned death
- Father of the detective fiction genre
- Horror
Famous works
- The tell-tale heart
- The raven
- The black cat
- A Descent Into The Maelström
- The island of the Fay