Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. He was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
Edgar Allan Poe war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er prägte entscheidend die Gattung der Kurzgeschichte sowie die Genres der Kriminal-, der Horror- und der Schauerliteratur. Einzelne Erzählungen haben spätere Autoren der Science-Fiction wie Jules Verne beeinflusst. Seine Poesie, in Europa u. a. von Charles Baudelaire rezipiert, wurde zum Fundament des Symbolismus und damit der modernen Dichtung.
Edgar Allan Poe /ˈɛdɡɚ ˈælən poʊ/, né le 19 janvier 1809 à Boston et mort le 7 octobre 1849 à Baltimore, est un poète, romancier, nouvelliste, critique littéraire, dramaturge et éditeur américain, ainsi que l'une des principales figures du romantisme américain. Connu surtout pour ses contes — genre dont la brièveté lui permet de mettre en valeur sa théorie de l'effet, suivant laquelle tous les éléments du texte doivent concourir à la réalisation d'un effet unique — il a donné à la nouvelle ses lettres de noblesse et est considéré comme l’inventeur du roman policier. Nombre de ses récits préfigurent les genres de la science-fiction et du fantastique.
Edgar Allan Poe oli yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija ja runoilija. Poe on amerikkalaisen romantiikan suuria nimiä. Poe tunnetaan etenkin kauhuteemoistaan, ja hän on vaikuttanut symbolisteihin sekä ollut monen salapoliisi- ja tieteiskirjailijan esikuva.
Edgar Beecher Bronson (1856–1917) was a Nebraska rancher, a West Texas cattleman, an African big-game hunter, a serious photographer and starting late in life, an author of fiction and personal memoirs. As he matured as a writer, his works showed a "marked advance...in characterization".
Edgar Alfred Jepson was an English author. He largely wrote mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also supernatural and fantasy stories. He sometimes used the pseudonym R. Edison Page.
Edgar Lee Masters was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
