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[[image:Edgar_Allan_Poe_2.jpg|thumb|250px|right|This [[daguerreotype]] of Poe was taken less than a year before his death at the age of 40.]]
'''Edgar Allan Poe''' ([[January 19]], [[1809]] – [[October 7]], [[1849]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[List of English language poets|poet]], [[short story]] writer, [[editor]], [[critic]] and one of the leaders of the American [[Romanticism|Romantics]]. He is best known for his tales of the [[macabre]] and his poems, as well as being one of the early practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of [[detective fiction]], as well as [[crime fiction]] in the United States. He is also often credited with inventing the gothic fiction story. Poe died at the age of 40, the cause of his death a final mystery, although it is well-known that he struggled with alcohol problems, and it has also been alleged that he had a drug problem. However, some say he died of tuberculosis, as so many people did in his time. His exact burial ___location is also a source of controversy.
==The life of Edgar Allan Poe==
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