The Boston native only lived until he was 40 years old, but he was one of the most famous literary pioneers ... So, it was ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot ... immediately entering the zeitgeist and leaving Poe not just famous ...

The writer's former residence – now a National Historic Landmark – is also the location where historians believe Poe composed many of his famous ... The Edgar Allan Poe House is open Thursday ...

More recently, though, the 2017 PBS American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, downplayed the tortured image. “He comes off instead as a smart guy who wanted to become famous ...