Edgar Allan Poe

Life & Times

by Brian Morton

Edgar Allen Poe stands at the very beginning of American literature, an orphaned, rootless, haunted man who gave short story writing its modern cast and pioneered detective fiction. Brian Morton puts the Poe legend into context, revealing one of the most influential writers of modern times.

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2008

About the author

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Brian Morton (born 1954) is a Scottish writer, journalist and broadcaster, mainly specialising in jazz and modern literature. Morton was educated at Edinburgh University and taught in the late 1970s at the University of East Anglia and the University of Tromsø in Norway.

Reviews

[Ali · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book felt quite sterile and uninvolving

[Audrey Saltarelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

It seemed to me to be more of a chronology of Poe's works instead of an interesting biography