Edgar Allan Poe Timeline

Poe launched the new genre of detective fiction with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809

Self-Published his first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems"

Was a critic at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond in 1835 till 1837

Won 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.