WRITER

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 - 1849

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Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States, and of early American literature. Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Allan Poe has received more than 26,234,536 page views. His biography is available in 143 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 135 in 2019). Edgar Allan Poe is the 5th most popular writer (up from 9th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from United States (down from 5th 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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  • 143

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  • 16.56

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  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The fall of the house of Usher
1897
The works of Edgar Allan Poe
1845
Tales of mystery and imagination
1855
The Tell-Tale Heart
1831
Short stories
1864
The Raven
1885

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 5 out of 7,302. Before him are Homer, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. After him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord Byron, Voltaire, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, and Victor Hugo.

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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, Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Albert Pike, Bruno Bauer, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 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, France Prešeren, Sándor Petőfi, 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 8 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas Jefferson (1743), Thomas Edison (1847), Muhammad Ali (1942), Jimmy Carter (1924), Michael Jackson (1958), and Richard Nixon (1913). After him are Sylvester Stallone (1946), Steve Jobs (1955), Andrew Jackson (1767), Marilyn Monroe (1926), Steven Spielberg (1946), and Abraham Lincoln (1809).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 1. After him are Ernest Hemingway (1899), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Henry David Thoreau (1817), Jack London (1876), Toni Morrison (1931), Stephen King (1947), Dr. Seuss (1904), and William Faulkner (1897).

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