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 ...

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 ...

This Edgar Allan Poe Biography Is One for the Ages. More than from any other Poe biographer, we get the nuances of the writer’s life, almost on a day-by-day basis, an approach that is an indispensable ...

Mr. Kopley intends this biography to be “accessible to all.” Alas, while “Edgar Allan Poe” will no doubt assist those in academia, the armchair Poe enthusiast is likely to find it tough going.

Throughout his life, Edgar Allan Poe lost the women he loved, including his mother, adoptive mother and wife, many to tuberculosis. Their absence played a huge role in his writing. According to ...