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Poe may have intended the editor's suggestion that Zenobia kill herself as a jab at women writers or their editors. [6] Additionally, Poe mocks political writing and plagiarism of the period by depicing the editor with three apprentices who use tailor shears to cut apart other articles and splice them together.
The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel.His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing. [1]
Chivers' Life of Poe is a biography concerning the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe as written by his friend and fellow poet Thomas Holley Chivers.The majority of the work remained in manuscript form as the "New Life of Edgar Allan Poe" until 1952, when it was edited and published by the American academic Richard Beale Davis.
The title of the 1908 book together with its formula of compiling Poe's most bewildering tales into a single volume continues to be used by other publishers. In 1919 London's George G. Harrap and Co. published an edition illustrated by Harry Clarke in black and white. In 1923 an expanded edition was released with many more illustrations ...
Poe was an experienced editor at the time, but was still facing financial difficulties. Wyatt had said, "Poe needed money very sorely at the time," and so Poe allowed the use of his name to popularize the book. [3] The Philadelphia-based publishing firm Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell paid Poe $50 for the right to use his name on the title ...
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback or eBook Original was established in 1970. The award honors the best mystery book that is initially printed as a paperback or eBook without a hardcover edition. [1] EBooks must be published by a reputable publisher, as determined by the Mystery Writers of America. [1]
French author Jules Verne greatly admired Poe and wrote a study, Edgar Poe et ses œuvres, in 1864. [96] Poe's story "Three Sundays in a Week" may have inspired Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). [97] In 1897, Verne published a sequel to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket called An Antarctic Mystery. [98]
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel was established in 1954. Only hardcover novels written by a published American author are eligible. Paperback original novels are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original. Debut novels by American novels are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. [1]