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.

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

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

On Oct. 3, 1849, American poet Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious, confused and wearing someone else’s ratty clothes in a Baltimore, Maryland gutter. Yes, literally! He was taken to a nearby ...

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 ...