Post-Colonial Author in American Literature

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Post-Colonial Author in American Literature
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1POST COLONIAL AUTHOR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be one of the most popular authors of the post-
colonial American literature. Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his best short stories and
poetry especially his stories of the unexpected and the macabre. The author is also regarded
as the inventor of the detective fiction stories and also paved the way for the genre of science-
fiction stories. He is also the first author who is known to have chosen writing as a career for
himself, which led to a difficult life and career for him.
The purpose of this essay is to make a biography on the life and the works of
Edgar Allan Poe, considered to be one of the most well-known authors of the Post-
Colonial American Literature.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809 to actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe
and David Poe Jr. He grew up and spent some time with the United States army, as he was
unable to support himself. Once he got discharged from the army, he went to live with his
widowed aunt. As stated by Brown (1791), after his wife’s death, Poe decided to launch his
writing career. He wrote short stories and poems which ranged from dealing with the
supernatural to detective stories and also paved the way for the birth of the science- fiction
stories. One of his most well-known creations was Monsieur Auguste Dupin, considered to
the first detective character to emerge in the English literature as a whole. Throughout his
life, Poe had written and published numerous short stories and poems among which some of
the most famous ones are “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Raven” “ The Fall of The House of
Usher” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Black Cat”. He lived a difficult life and
died in Baltimore in 1940 at the age of 40, suffering from tuberculosis.
One of the most unique aspects that is common in most of Poe’s works is
romanticism. This is commonly seen in most of his works as he had started his writing career
after the death of his wife. Therefore, the element of romanticism is clear in his works