{"id":28203,"date":"2026-01-19T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/happy-birthday-edgar-allan-poe\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T06:30:10","slug":"happy-birthday-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/happy-birthday-edgar-allan-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday EDGAR ALLAN POE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/01-19-E-A-Poe-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/01-19-E-A-Poe-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/01-19-E-A-Poe-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/01-19-E-A-Poe-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/01-19-E-A-Poe-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/01-19-E-A-Poe.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<\/strong> was born 216 years ago today. We commemorate the poet who was only 40 years old.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><br\/>&#8211; Poe is best known for his horror stories, but he is also considered one of the earliest writers of short stories, the inventor of the modern detective story and a pioneer of the science fiction genre. <br\/>&#8211; <strong>Edgar Allan Poe<\/strong> is considered America&#8217;s first known professional writer (and coined the image of the &#8220;starving artist&#8221;).<br\/>&#8211; He was probably named by his parents, who were both actors, after a character in Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;King Lear&#8221; (the son of the Earl of Gloucester), as they performed it in the year of his birth.<br\/>&#8211; Before Edgar was four years old, his parents died and he was taken in by a wealthy merchant named John Allan and his wife Francis. &#8211; But later disinherited. <br\/>&#8211; His death was mysterious and remains so to this day. 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