Edgar Allen Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, known as a poet and critic but most famous as the "master of the short-story form" ( Edgar Allan Poe), especially tales of the "mysterious and macabre" ( Edgar Allan Poe). The literary merits of Poe's writings have been debated since his death, but his works have remained popular and many major American and European writers have "professed their artistic debt to him" ( Edgar Allan Poe). Edgar Allan Poe was …

…childhood friends and an unromantic friendship with young poet, Susan Archer Talley (Woodberry 96). "Poe had some forebodings of death when he left Richmond for Baltimore late in September" (Woodberry105). There, after toasting a lady at her birthday party, he began to drink heavily. "The indulgence proved fatal, for Poe he had a weak heart" (Woodberry 106). "Poe died October, 7 1849" (Untermeyer 556) of "unknown causes" (Edgar Allan Poe). He is buried in Westminster Presbyterian churchyard in Baltimore (Woodberry 106).