Edgar Allan Poe

A Life

A groundbreaking exploration of one of America’s most iconic and misunderstood authors

“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 way of re-creating the whole man.”
– Carl Rollyson, The New York Sun

“Kopley tells us he has read and researched Poe for so long, the writer has become a friend. Read Edgar Allan Poe and make him yours.”
–Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life