Edgar Allan Poe’s death in 1849 has been surrounded in enigmas, which seems apt for the writer who originated the mystery and horror genres.
Discovered half-conscious in the streets of Baltimore (when he was supposed to be in Philadelphia), wearing another man’s clothes and supposedly calling out for someone who has never been identified, Poe was to end his life with friends offering wildly conflicting accounts of what had happened, and enemies publishing relentless smears of him.
This week on The Historians Podcast, author Mark Dawidziak investigates Edgar Allan Poe’s strange death in Baltimore, and revisits the moments of Poe’s storm-tossed life in his book A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe (St. Martin’s Press, 2023).
Mark Dawidziak is the author or editor of 25 books. He also is an internationally recognized Mark Twain performer and scholar. He lives in Ohio.
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