I n the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room ...

A new biography, “Edgar Allan Poe” by Richard Kopley, is a sympathetic portrait of the horror master, connecting his life story to his fiction.

Not just a great writer, Poe had a circle of friends and family that cared for and about him, says the author of a new biography.

Following eight months of closure, the beloved Edgar Allan Poe Library on Sullivan’s Island will officially reopen Tuesday ...

Edgar Allan Poe is most closely associated with ravens due to his most famous work, “The Raven.” His poem by the same name was a smash hit when it was first published in 1845, though Poe ...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was never one for a happy ending. The celebrated writer of stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and the classic poem “The ...

Four years later he introduced into poetry the indelible phrase “Quoth ... and Richard Kopley certainly seems the man to write it. With “Edgar Allan Poe: A Life” Mr. Kopley, a professor ...