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This is a list containing the various book-length biographies written and published concerning the life of the writer Edgar Allan Poe. The exact use of "biography" has been contested by Poe scholars: Esther F. Hyneman lists a total of 34 works published before 1973, while Scott Peeples includes the 206-page summary of his life by Marie Bonaparte. Peeples lists a further six English-language biographies published between 1973 and 1995.[1]: 335
Background (Poe summary and Griswold's memoir)
[edit]Rough timeline of writing (change over time)
[edit]Early biographers relied on the ability to contact Poe's acquaintances.
William Fearing Gill claimed to have been "brought into relations of near friendship" with some of those who knew Poe through writing his 1877 work.[2]
Materials used + focus
[edit]According to Scott Peeples in Biography, most biographers writing after Griswold have used the letter from Poe's doctor John J. Moran to Maria Clemm to describe his death. He criticises writers like Jeffrey Meyers for using Moran's statements without criticism.[1]: 329
Scott Peeples wrote that "Biographers tend to read Poe's work into his life, to treat his writing as biographical evidence, and conversely, to interpret stories and poems as allegories of his life experience".[1]: 332
Books considered "best"
[edit]Several biographies of Poe have been considered the "best" or "most complete".
Arthur H. Quinn's 1941 biography of Poe was described by James Southall Wilson as "the best of the lives of Poe".[3]: 168
Biographies
[edit]| Title | Author(s) | Publisher | Year | Identifier | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Life of Edgar Allan Poe | William Fearing Gill | William F. Gill & Co. | 1877 | OCLC 4934793 | ||
| Edgar Allan Poe | George Edward Woodberry | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | 1885 | OCLC 1598908 | Part of the "American Men of Letters" series. | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | John Albert Macy | Small, Maynard & Company | 1907 | OCLC 3812108 | ||
| The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and Literary, with his Chief Correspondence with Men of Letters | George Edward Woodberry | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1909 | OCLC 783868 | A two-volume revised edition of Woodberry's 1885 work; contains letters not printed in the earlier biography. | [4]: 115 |
| Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe | Hervey Allen | George H. Doran Company | 1926 | OCLC 598954 | Two volumes. | |
| Edgar Poe: Étude Psychanalytique | Marie Bonaparte | Éditions Denoël et Steele | 1933 | OCLC 3813294 | Two volumes. Translated into English by John Rodker; published by Imago Publishing in 1949. | [5]: 58 |
| Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849: A Critical Biography | Una Pope-Hennessy | Macmillan and Co. | 1934 | OCLC 963697 | ||
| Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography | Arthur H. Quinn | D. Appleton-Century Company | 1941 | OCLC 187309465 | ||
| Chivers' Life of Poe | Thomas Holley Chivers | E. P. Dutton and Company | 1952 | OCLC 220128818 | Originally written in the 1850s; edited by Richard Beale Davis. | [6]: 549 |
| Poe: A Biography | William Bittner | Little, Brown and Company | 1962 | OCLC 2386860 | ||
| The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe | Julian Symons | Harper and Row | 1978 | OCLC 3481348 | ||
| The Extraordinary Mr. Poe: A Biography of Edgar Allan Poe | Wolf Mankowitz | Summit Books | 1978 | OCLC 3627294 | ||
| Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance | Kenneth Silverman | HarperCollins | 1991 | OCLC 27194805 | ||
| Poe: A Life Cut Short | Peter Ackroyd | Nan A. Talese / Doubleday | 2008 | OCLC 267249198 | Part of the "Ackroyd's Brief Lives" series. | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Kevin J. Hayes | Reaktion Books | 2009 | OCLC 671654659 | Part of the "Critical Lives" series. |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Peeples, Scott (1995). "Life Writing/Death Writing: Biographical Versions of Poe's Final Hours". Biography. 18 (4). ISSN 0162-4962. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
- ^ Gill, William Fearing (1878). The Life of Edgar Allan Poe (4th ed.). W. J. Widdleton. p. v.
- ^ Wilson, James Southall (1942). "Review of Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography". American Literature. 14 (2). doi:10.2307/2920673. ISSN 0002-9831. Retrieved July 3, 2024.
- ^ Campbell, Killis (April 1910). "Review: Woodberry's Revised Life of Poe". Modern Language Notes. 25 (4). Retrieved June 24, 2024.
- ^ Victor, Kanter (1951). "Review: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe. A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation". The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. 32.
- ^ Parks, Lois Ferry; Chase, Emma (1952). "Review of Chivers' Life of Poe". The Journal of Southern History. 18 (4). doi:10.2307/2955247. ISSN 0022-4642. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
Sources for later
[edit]- Building Poe Biography by John Carl Miller