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Edgar Allan Poe

19th-century American author, poet, editor and literary critic

1809 - 1849

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His biography is available in 148 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 143 in 2024). Edgar Allan Poe is the 7th most popular writer (down from 5th in 2024), the 9th most popular biography from United States (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular American Writer.

Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for his poem "The Raven" and for writing horror stories.

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Edgar Allan Poe is the most memorable of the 285 notable people born in Boston, United States, ahead of Benjamin Franklin, Louis Sullivan, and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr..

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Of the 1,302 Writers born in United States, Edgar Allan Poe ranks first.

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Edgar Allan Poe ranks #7 of 7,302 Writers worldwide — among the top 1% of the profession.

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Despite a life of just 40 years, Edgar Allan Poe ranks #7 among all Writers in history.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 7 out of 7,302. Before him are Homer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and J. R. R. Tolkien. After him are Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, and James Joyce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 2. Before him is Charles Darwin. After him are Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Nikolai Gogol, William Ewart Gladstone, Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bruno Bauer, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 2. Before him is Frédéric Chopin. After him are James K. Polk, Hokusai, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, Sándor Petőfi, France Prešeren, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Charles Albert of Sardinia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 9 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas Jefferson (1743), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Thomas Edison (1847), J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Muhammad Ali (1942), and Andrew Jackson (1767). After him are Pope Leo XIV (1955), William McKinley (1843), Al Pacino (1940), Sylvester Stallone (1946), Clint Eastwood (1930), and Ulysses S. Grant (1822).

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Among Writers In United States

Among writers born in United States, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 1. After him are T. S. Eliot (1888), Emily Dickinson (1830), Ernest Hemingway (1899), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), George R. R. Martin (1948), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Louisa May Alcott (1832), and Ursula K. Le Guin (1929).

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