Biography: Edgar Allan Poe was an unparalleled short-story writer, poet, critic and editor. The extent of Edgar Allan Poe’s influence on our culture is incalculable: Poe’s tales of enigma and terror initiated the modern deceive story, they contributed to the development of both science fiction and the horror genre, and wrote about the only American poem anybody knows.
The atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. Some of his more notable literary classics include: The Raven (1845), The Tell-Tale Heart (1843), and The Fall of the House of Usher (1839). Some of his works number among the best-known poems in national literature.
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts;