Edgar allan poe (1809-49) is one of america's most famous writers. He lived an unhappy life:was often close to life: he was often close to madness, often drunk and He worked on magazines and newspapers and wrote science fiction, horror and detective stories. He married in 1836, but his young wife died only eleven years later. "I became mad after that," he sai His own death was a famous mystery. He was found drunk in a bar in Baltimore in someone else's clothes. He died in hospital a few days late