Today is the birthday of the poet and novelist
Edgar Allan Poe. What is not usually known about Poe is that he was one of the first popular American writers to make a living working for magazines. The author of
The Tell Tale Heart and
The Fall of the House of Usher, Poe is known for his dark, Gothic tales of murder and insanity. But while he was writing, Poe also worked as an editor for various magazines for some 10 years. Something else I've always found interesting: Poe's famous poem,
The Raven, was first published in the
Evening Mirror, a small newspaper in New York.
