Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the modern detective fiction genre with his story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," featuring the detective C. Auguste Dupin. He is also considered a pioneer in the development of Science Fiction for his tale "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," which involves a trip to the moon using a balloon.
Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the short story.
Edgar Allen Poe wrote literary texts.The literary works of Edgar Allen Poe have entertained millions of readers.A work like Edgar Allen Poe's are called literary if they contain certain elements of literary style.
Rufus Wilmot Griswold became Poe's literary executor, unfortunately for Poe. Griswold was an enemy of Poe's and did all he could to vilify Poe and his works
The Edgar Allan Poe award is awarded by the Mystery Writers of America for best mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theatre published or produced in the previous year. Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the Detective story so he is an appropriate person to name the award after.
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Poe worked as an editor for various literary magazines and as a literary critic. He also served in the U.S. Army for a brief period.
From 1835, Edgar Allan Poe was working as a literary critic for The Southern Literary Messenger. Poe's magazine was to be called Penn Magazine (Poe was working in Philadelphia at the time) and then it was changed to The Stylus. Poe issued a prospectus for it in 1840, but never was able to raise sufficient capital to publish even one issue so the magazine never came to fruition. The Southern Literary Messenger was not "Poe's magazine." It belonged to Thomas W. White. Poe left it in 1837.
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He became the assistant editor at the Southern Literary Messenger.The Southern Literary Messenger.
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Edgar Allan Poe was given credit for inventing the detective story.
Poe is generally credited with inventing the modern detective or mystery story.Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story, with tales like 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Purloined Letter'. In 'Murders', Poe presents an intelligent but eccentric detective C. Auguste Dupin, who solves crimes through rational thinking. Other famous detectives, e.g. Sherlock Holmes, are based on this character.Poe started the genre of mystery and detective fiction with his three stories, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter."Poe developed the genre of detective fiction with the story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and the later stories "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and The Purloined Letter" in which there is the recurring character of the detective C. Auguste Dupin.The modern detective story.Gothic FictionHe is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre.