Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) était un écrivain, poète, éditeur et critique littéraire, considérés comme faisant partie du mouvement romantique américain. Mieux connu pour ses histoires de mystère et le macabre, Poe est l'un des premiers médecins américains de la courte s
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. He was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan. He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. He enlisted in the Army, but failed as an officer's cadet at West Point. His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems. He switched to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. He died in 1849, at age 40. The cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide and/or tuberculosis.
