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1809 - 1849
Life History
• Edgar Allen Poe, son of actors, was taken to his Career:
godfather(presumably) and foster mother after his
• Started writing stories in Baltimore
biological mother died in Richmond, Virginia
USA(1911). • Was editor of the ‘Southern Literary Messenger’
by 1835, where he made his name as a critical
Education: reviewer
• In Scotland and England(1815-20),
• Dismissed from his job for drinking
• In Richmond USA(1820-26)
• Became coeditor of Burton’s Gentleman’s
• University of Virginia(1826-27) Magazine in Philadelphia in 1839
• Became subeditor of the New York Mirror in 1845
Popular Works and Achievements
The most famous work of Edgar Allan Poe is ‘The Raven’, which gave him instant national fame.
Poe is also famous for writing the first modern detective story ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’.
Other notable works include his story ‘The Gold Bug’, which won a prize of 100 dollars from the
Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper; ‘MS Found in a Bottle’, which won a prize of 50 dollars from a Baltimore
weekly; and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’.
Poe did not win awards of any kind except for money prizes from newspaper agencies.
J.K. Rowling:
English author
In 1907 Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel Prize in literature, becoming the first
English language writer to do so and the youngest person ever to receive the prize.
He was offered the British Poet Laureateship and knighthood, both of which he
declined. In 1926 Kipling received the Gold Medal of the Society of Literature.
Robert Louis
Stevenson:
Scottish writer and poet