He was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston in a family of itinerant actors. Very early he became an orphan: Edgar’s father disappeared in 1810, and two years later his mother died.
Category: Best American Writers
Many of the works of the first half of the twentieth century entered the so-called golden fund. In those days, realism took absolute leadership: poets and writers believed that it was important to convey to posterity descriptions of the situation and the moods of society with the utmost precision.