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This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but exploited author and editor, a man who veered radically from temperance to rampant debauchery, and an agnostic who sought a return to religion at the end of his life. Acclaimed biographer Jeffrey Meyers explores the writer's turbulent life and career, including his marriage and multiple, simultaneous romances, his literary feuds, and his death at an early age under bizarre and troubling circumstances.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. An Inauspicious Birth, 1809–1811
- 2. Childhood: John Allan and England, 1812–1825
- 3. The University of Virginia, 1826
- 4. The Army and West Point, 1827–1831
- 5. Baltimore: Maria Clemm and Early Stories, 1831–1834
- 6. Richmond: The Southern Literary Messenger and Marriage, 1835–1836
- 7. Philadelphia: Burton’s Magazine, 1837–1840
- 8. Philadelphia: Graham’s Magazine, 1841–1843
- 9. A Lion in New York, 1844–1845
- 10. New York: The Broadway Journal, 1845
- 11. Fordham and Literary Quarrels, 1846–1847
- 12. Fordham: Eureka and Hopeless Love, 1848
- 13. Drink, Delirium and Death, 1849
- 14. Reputation
- 15. Influence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index