2 Quotes & Sayings By Edger Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, literary critic, and amateur historian of the early American republic. He is best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. Poe is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole. He was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre
He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American practitioner of cryptography, using an early form of code named "Ripley's Algorithm" (later termed "Poe Codes").