3. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, best known for his tales of mystery. Poe, one of the first American authors of the short story format, is considered the inventor of the detective fiction literature.
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He was born Edgar Poe to Boston natives Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr. Edgar seemed to have been named after a character in William Shakespeare’s King Lear, a play his parents were performing in 1809. His father abandoned their family in 1810, when the boy was barely one. According to Wikipedia, his mother died a year later from pulmonary tuberculosis. Poe’s care was handed to John Allan, a successful Scottish merchant who dealt tobacco, tombstones, slaves, etc. The Allans gave Edgar the name “Edgar Allan Poe,” but they never legally adopted him.
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