Edgar Allan Poe : a biography /
Milton Meltzer.
- Brookfield, Conn. : Twenty-First Century Books, c2003.
- p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Theater in the blood -- A quick and clever boy -- The teenager -- Soldier and poet -- In West Point, and out -- Satire and science fiction -- Editor, novelist, husband -- Hoaxes and horrors -- The first-ever detective story -- A popular lecturer -- New York : the rich and the poor -- "The raven" and fame -- Death of the beloved -- The last years -- Chronology of Edgar Allan Poe.
Examines the troubled life of the nineteenth-century writer whose poetry and short stories broke new ground in American literature.