Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1949) received a good education, first in
England, then in a private school at Richmond, and later spent a
year at the University of Virginia before he ran away to enlist in
the army. Between 1827 and 1831, he published three volumes of
poetry- Tamerlane (1827), Al Aaraaf (1829), and Poems (1831). From
1831 to 1835, he lived in Baltimore, where he began a lifelong
struggle with poverty, disappointments in love, and addiction to
alcohol. This last defect made it impossible for him to retain the
editorial positions he later secured on magazines in Richmond,
Philadelphia, and New York, despite the fact that the tales and
book reviews he contributed greatly increased circulation. In May
1836, he married Virginia Clemm, a child of thirteen and the
daughter of a paternal aunt. In April 1844, he moved his family to
New York, and in January of the following year his literary
fortunes turned when his poem "The Raven" appeared in the New York
Evening News. Overnight, he became the most talked-about man of
letters in America. Early in 1847 his wife died, and the year 1848
saw the end of two unhappy love affairs. He died on October 7,
1849.
Stephen Marlowe (1928-2008) was the author of more than fifty
novels, including the internationally acclaimed Memoirs of
Christopher Columbus, which was awarded the French Prix Gutenberg
du Livre in 1988, and in 1997, he received a lifetime achievement
award from the Private Eye Writers of America. His novel The
Lighthouse at the End of the World revolves around the real and
imagined life of Edgar Allan Poe.
Regina Marler is the author of Bloomsbury Pie- The Making of the
Bloomsbury Boom, and editor of Queer Beats- How the Beats Turned
America On to Sex. While still in graduate school, she was chosen
by the heirs of Virginia Woolf to edit the letters of Woolf's
artist sister, Vanessa Bell, which appeared as Selected Letters of
Vanessa Bell in 1993. Marler lives in San Francisco.
“Poe was so good at writing stories that exploited the unspoken horrors of his day.”—Chuck Palahniuk
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