TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meltzer,Milton
TI  - Edgar Allan Poe: a biography 
SN  - 0761329102 (lib. bdg.) :
AV  - PS2631 .M45 2003
U1  - 818/.309B 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Brookfield, Conn.
PB  - Twenty-First Century Books
KW  - Poe, Edgar Allan,
KW  - American authors
KW  - Biography
KW  - Sears
N1  - 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
N2  - Examines the troubled life of the nineteenth-century writer whose poetry and short stories broke new ground in American literature
ER  -