American writer and critic born in Boston in 1809…

American writer and critic born in Boston in 1809, orphaned young, raised in Richmond. A master of the macabre, he wrote tales such as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher. His detective C. Auguste Dupin, introduced in The Murders in the Rue Morgue, paved the way for Sherlock Holmes. His poem The Raven brought him fame in 1845. He died mysteriously in Baltimore in 1849.

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