Edgar Allan Poe is the inspiration behind one NFL team, the Baltimore Ravens. In 1996, the pro football team took a new name inspired by Poe's most famous work. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR ...

As Biography notes, “Edgar never really knew his biological parents: Elizabeth Arnold Poe, a British actor, and David Poe Jr., an actor who was born in Baltimore.” ...

Edgar Allan Poe was taken in as a foster child at age 2 by a childless Richmond couple, John and Frances Allan, following the death of Poe’s actress mother, Eliza Poe, in 1811.

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 mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of detective ...

Edgar Allan Poe, still looking relatively fit and healthy in a daguerreotype probably taken in New York in 1847. (Courtesy the Harvard Art Museum) The facts of his early life were far less romantic.

Provided image/NPS Edgar Allan Poe lived in one of the National Park Service site's two adjoining townhouses with his wife and mother-in-law from 1843 to 1844.

Mr. Kopley intends this biography to be “accessible to all.” Alas, while “Edgar Allan Poe” will no doubt assist those in academia, the armchair Poe enthusiast is likely to find it tough going.