and James Russell Lowell and Edgar Allan Poe of nineteenth century American letters.

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Recalling his earlier Edgar Allan Poe material, Woolfson saw a way to combine his and Parsons ' respective talents.

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

The name was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, as Poe lived for a time in Baltimore, died there in 1849, and is buried there.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

This belief made its contributions to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", Washington Irving's The Devil and Tom Walker, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island.

Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe

" Das Fräulein von Scuderi ", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweller, is sometimes cited as the first detective story and a direct influence on Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".

In the sonnet " To Science " by Edgar Allan Poe, science is said to have " dragged Diana from her car ".

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The subject of this article should not be confused with a former newspaper correspondent, for who the Edgar Allan Poe Award is named

The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name " Edgar Allan Poe ", though they never formally adopted him.

Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

The day Edgar Allan Poe was buried, a long obituary appeared in the New York Tribune signed " Ludwig ".

The piece began, " Edgar Allan Poe is dead.

Edgar Allan Poe photographed circa 1849

The historical Edgar Allan Poe has appeared as a fictionalized character, often representing the " mad genius " or " tormented artist " and exploiting his personal struggles.

The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia is one of several preserved former residences of Poe

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts ; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family.

This plaque marks the approximate location where Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.

In the June 6, 1840 issue of Philadelphia's Saturday Evening Post, Poe bought advertising space for his prospectus: " Prospectus of the Penn Magazine, a Monthly Literary journal to be edited and published in the city of Philadelphia by Edgar A.

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

In the novel, Lucie Ashton and the nobly born but now dispossessed and impoverished Edgar Ravenswood exchange vows.

Their second son Henry Edgar ( 1876 – 1937 ) was born in London in July 1876.

Edgar was born in Hungary, where his father Edward the Exile, son of King Edmund II Ironside, had spent most of his life, having been sent into exile after Edmund's death and the conquest of England by the Danish king Cnut in 1016.

Edgar Degas ( or ; ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917 ), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing.

* Edgar " Pop " Buell ( 1913 – 1980 ), humanitarian aid worker in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s, was born in Richland Township and farmed there until he joined International Voluntary Services in 1960.

* Joseph Edgar Foreman, musician ( born as well as raised in Palmdale but also raised in Hattiesburg )

* Lloyd Edgar Acree, posthumous recipient of the Navy Cross, was born here in 1920.

* Edgar Mitchell ( born September 17, 1930, in Hereford ) is an American pilot and astronaut.

* Frederick Edgar Ferguson, Medal of Honor recipient, was born in Pilot Point.

* The Norwegian-American writer Randolph Edgar Haugan was born in Martell.

Bergen was born Edgar John Berggren in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Swedish immigrants Nilla Svensdotter ( née Osberg ) and Johan Henriksson Berggren.

Woolley was born Edgar Montillion Woolley in New York City to a wealthy family ( his father owned the Bristol Hotel ) and grew up in the highest social circles.

* Edgar Desmond Lee, co-founder of Lee-Rowan Company, was born in Sikeston.

Lansbury was born in Poplar, London, United Kingdom, to Northern Irish-born actress Moyna MacGill and timber merchant and politician Edgar Lansbury, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and former mayor of the London Borough of Poplar.

Her brother Edgar the Ætheling and her sister Cristina were also born in Hungary around this time.

Peter Lougheed was born in Calgary on July 26, 1928, the son of Edgar Donald Lougheed ( 1893 – 1951 ) and Edna Alexandria Bauld ( 1901 – 1972 ).

Edgar Henry Schein ( born 1928 ), a former professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has made a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture.

Wilkins was born in Pongaroa, north Wairarapa, New Zealand where his father, Edgar Henry Wilkins was a medical doctor.

* Edgar Stern ( born 1926 ), Author of The Peppermint Train, A Journey Through a Jewish-German Childhood