BiographyType: Writer Born: January 19, 1809 Boston, Massachusetts, Unit Died: October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland, Unit American writer, critic and editor Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery, including "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher". Poe is remembered as one of the first American writers to become a major figure in world literature. |