Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. He was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the second child of American actor David Poe Jr. and English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe.
He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. He was one of the country’s earliest practitioners of short stories and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
