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Author Meltzer, Milton, 1915-2009.

Title Edgar Allan Poe : a biography / Milton Meltzer.

Publication Info. Brookfield, Conn. : Twenty-First Century Books, [2003]
©2003
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1259982~S1
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 95th Street Juvenile Biography  J BIO POE    AVAILABLE
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Description 144 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary Examines the troubled life of the nineteenth-century writer whose poetry and short stories broke new ground in American literature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138) and index.
Contents 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 Poe's life.
Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Juvenile literature.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 0761329102
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