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Poe, Edgar Allan
Edgar Allan Poe, born Edgar Poe, was an American author of Irish descent whose contribution to the horror, crime and fantasy fiction genres cannot be overestimated. He has been described as the father of the modern mystery novel and broke new ground in the field of horror and fantasy. Poe preferred to describe himself as a poet, and many of his poems are classics.
Poe was born in Boston,...
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Oursler, Fulton
The American author, playwright and magazine editor Fulton Oursler was born in Baltimore in a poor middle-class family. He left school at 15 and started to work as an office boy. In 1910 he got a job as a reporter on the Baltimore News American, and in the same year, aged 17, he married Rose Keller Karger. The couple had two children, of whom their son William ‘Will’ Oursler (1913–1985) became a w...