A new biography, “Edgar Allan Poe” by Richard Kopley, is a sympathetic portrait of the horror master, connecting his life story to his fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer ... “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” 7. “They who dream by ...

Never in doubt of his own abilities, Edgar Allan Poe pursued extremes in literature and in life.

Sylvester Stallone once wanted Robert Downey Jr. for his Edgar Allan Poe biopic, but he felt the timing wasn’t right—keep ...

Not just a great writer, Poe had a circle of friends and family that cared for and about him, says the author of a new biography.

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...