Marianne

In 1849, a lit­tle over 175 years in the past, Edgar Allan Poe was discovered lifeless in a Bal­ti­extra intestine­ter beneath mys­te­ri­ous cir­cum­stances very like­ly relat­ed to vio­lent elec­tion fraud. It was an igno­min­ious finish to a life marked by onerous­ship, alco­holism, and loss. After strug­gling for years as the primary Amer­i­can author to try…