Poe was a turbulent soul: ardent and moody, thoughtful but grievously volatile. Mr. Kopley retails a painful incident during Poe’s brief time as a student at the University of Virginia ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...