Edgar Allan Poe Timeline
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Updated: 5 Oct 2017
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Poe launched the new genre of detective
fiction with "The Murders in the Rue
Morgue"Edgar Allan Poe was born on
January 19, 1809Self-Published his first book
"Tamerlane and Other Poems"Was a critic at the Southern Literary
Messenger in Richmond in 1835 till
1837Won a literary prize for "The
Golden Bug"His literary innovations earned him the
nickname "The Father of the Detective
Story"Edgar Allan Poe died on
October 7, 1849.
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