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Edgar Allan Poe

1809 - 1849

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Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature. Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. In addition, he is credited with contributing significantly to the emergence of science fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Allan Poe is the 7th most popular writer (down from 5th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from United States (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular American Writer.

Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for his poem "The Raven" and for writing horror stories.

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Among writers, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 7 out of 7,302. Before him are Homer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and J. R. R. Tolkien. After him are Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, and James Joyce.

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Among people born in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 2. Before him is Charles Darwin. After him are Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Nikolai Gogol, William Ewart Gladstone, Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bruno Bauer, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 2. Before him is Frédéric Chopin. After him are James K. Polk, Hokusai, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, Sándor Petőfi, France Prešeren, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Charles Albert of Sardinia.

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Among people born in United States, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 9 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas Jefferson (1743), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Thomas Edison (1847), J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Muhammad Ali (1942), and Andrew Jackson (1767). After him are Pope Leo XIV (1955), William McKinley (1843), Al Pacino (1940), Sylvester Stallone (1946), Clint Eastwood (1930), and Ulysses S. Grant (1822).

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Among writers born in United States, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 1. After him are T. S. Eliot (1888), Emily Dickinson (1830), Ernest Hemingway (1899), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), George R. R. Martin (1948), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Louisa May Alcott (1832), and Ursula K. Le Guin (1929).

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