A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment ...

Edgar Allan Poe was more than a tormented poetic and literary genius writing macabre stories of gloom; he also was a husband, a companion and a friend. “He was a social person. He wasn’t some ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means, almost syllogistically, that any biography of him — even one as thoughtful and compassionate as Richard Kopley’s “Edgar Allan Poe” — ...

Previous articles in this blog have described the tortured lives of remarkably creative and accomplished figures, including Herman Melville, Charles Darwin, and Abraham Lincoln, and touched on the ...

Told in song and verse, the show is filled with visual and verbal nods to the writer’s life and work. Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe combines the biographical ...