Edgar Allan Poe is the father of detective fiction.
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the father of detective fiction.
John Allan is Edgar Allan Poe's foster father.
Edgar Allan Poe.
The Edgar Award is for the Mystery genre of media
It is Edgar Allan Poe
There were rumors that Edgar Allan Poe's birth father was not his legal father, and that his biological father was actually a different individual. However, there is no concrete evidence to support these claims.
Edgar Allan Poe
When Edgar Allan Poe's foster father, John Allan, died, Edgar did not inherit anything significant. John Allan had made provisions for his wife and other children in his will, leaving Edgar out of his inheritance. Poe had a strained relationship with John Allan throughout his life and was largely financially independent by the time of his father's death.
David Poe, Jr., Edgar Allan Poe's natural father, was born on July 18, 1784, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Edgar Allan Poe's mother died before his father abandoned the family. His mother, Elizabeth Poe, passed away in 1811 when Edgar was only two years old. His father, David Poe Jr., had already abandoned them earlier, around 1809.
When Edgar Allan Poe's foster father John Allan died, he left Poe with nothing because he said that Poe had too much of a bad attitude, that he refused to get along and would never become anything because of his attitude...
he never knew his father