{"id":18426,"date":"2023-05-19T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18426"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:47:20","slug":"edgar-allan-poe-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/edgar-allan-poe-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Allan Poe Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809-1849)\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most famous American authors of the nineteenth century, Poe&#8217;s haunting poetry and short stories gained him international prominence during his lifetime. Born to professional actors in Boston, at three-years-old, Poe was unofficially adopted by a wealthy exporter in Richmond, Virginia following their untimely death. After attending the University of Virginia for a short while, he moved to Boston where he enlisted in the Army. During this time, he published many poems and short story collections without much attention.&nbsp;<br>Poe\u2019s most famous works\u2014such as <em>The Raven<\/em>, <em>The Tell-Tale Heart<\/em>, and <em>The Black Cat<\/em>\u2014were published when Poe was working as editor for magazines such as <em>the Southern Literary Messenger<\/em>. Beyond being a master at psychological horror, he developed the genres of detective novels and science fiction. His tumultuous life, marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, disturbing narratives, and mysterious death have kept new audiences continually intrigued by the author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"18424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.10-e1684507411797-900x900.webp\" alt=\"Edith Woodman Burroughs, Edgar Allan Poe Grolier Plaquette, 1909, 7 in., Bronze, cast by Roman Bronze Works, New York (unsigned),Bates College Museum of Art, Gift of John and Janet Marqusee, 1996.5.10  \" class=\"wp-image-18424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.10-e1684507411797-900x900.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.10-e1684507411797-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.10-e1684507411797-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.10-e1684507411797-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.10-e1684507411797-628x628.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.10-e1684507411797-200x200.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.10-e1684507411797.webp 1439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edith Woodman Burroughs,<em> Edgar Allan Poe Grolier Plaquette<\/em>, 1909, 7 in., Bronze, cast by Roman Bronze Works, New York (unsigned),Bates College Museum of Art, Gift of John and Janet Marqusee, 1996.5.10  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809-1849)\u00a0 One of the most famous American authors&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18426","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19338,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18426\/revisions\/19338"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}