Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809 to traveling actors who died before he was three. He was taken in, though never formally adopted, by John Allan, a Richmond merchant who gave him his middle name and an education but not stability or love. Poe attended the University of Virginia briefly, left owing gambling debts, joined the army, attended West Point and was expelled, and began the literary career that would consume and impoverish him. He worked as a critic and editor, writing reviews so savage they earned him enemies, and stories and poems that earned him little money but growing fame. 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' invented the detective story; C. Auguste Dupin solved crimes through pure ratiocination while the police stumbled in darkness.

Poe is best known as a artist. American writer and poet who pioneered detective fiction and mastered tales of mystery and the macabre

Poe lived 1809-1849 CE, born in 1809 and died in 1849, during the modern period.

Yes, free. Anyone can ask Poe, and a first question needs no account. Every answer is a Simulation in character, grounded in Poe’s real life, work and era. A good first question is: "What does it mean to design a story around a single effect, and how do I find that effect?"