Did you know: ……….Poe was obsessed with cats, Edgar often wrote with a cat on his shoulder. He introduced the first recorded literary detective in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” The detective character would lead to become the prototypical detective we know today. He was early adopter of the genre of Science Fiction. In 1844, he published “The Balloon” in Sun Newspaper. He described a lighter than air balloon that transversed the Atlantic Ocean in three days. The accounts were so believable that the newspaper had to retract the story two days later. However untrue the story was, the Sun newspaper made a ton of money off the story, and they did not give Poe a cent. From then on, Poe hated the Sun newspaper. In “The Raven”, Poe originally wanted to use a parrot instead of a raven, but he thought it didn’t evoke the right tone. Edgar changed the writing and publishing world. Before Poe, writing was a noble profession where not many were able to make a living off of ...
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