He did not take their last name, but instead he became Edgar Allan Poe. As a teenager Poe enjoyed the life of the elite upper-class. In 1824, a young Edgar Allan Poe was a part of a junior honor color ...

Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to independence with victory over the British at Yorktown.

and I still feel nostalgic about Harvard, about Elvis Presley, about Edgar Allan Poe, and about Martin Luther King. So I toast to you, Mr. President. Chile's ...

As her health begins to fade, she hires Margaret Lea, an amateur biographer, to pen her biography—full of ... reading list is complete without Edgar Allan Poe. This collection compiles some ...

"He had talent, movie-star good looks and a charm that endeared him to his audience," writes author Brian Jay Jones in his 2008 biography ... of the ghost tale Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley.

To this day, Rod Serling's sci-fi anthology series "The Twilight Zone" regularly tops lists of the best TV shows of all time.

Naipaul’s biography; describes Derek Walcott’s background as ... William Faulkner is mentioned most often, with Thomas Mann, Joseph Brodsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Dante and Homer tying for second place. Of ...

The course examines main points of development in the short story tradition in English from the nineteenth century to today, drawing on central concepts from short story theory from Edgar Allan Poe to ...

Joshua Kane has toured across the country for more than two decades as an acclaimed solo theatre artist and storyteller.

On Oct. 30 and Oct. 31, David Keltz returns to the Alexandria History Museum at The Lyceum for the annual “Poe in Alexandria” ...

Twisters starts with a group of college students, led by Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones), who are chasing a storm in their home state of Oklahoma. It continues to grow into a twister as they try Kate's ...

One morning in the spring of 1844, subscribers to the New York Sun were astonished to read a front-page story praising “the ...