37 min listen
282: The Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe w/ Mark Dawidziak
282: The Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe w/ Mark Dawidziak
ratings:
Length:
119 minutes
Released:
Feb 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Edgar Allan Poe is, of course, one of America's most iconic writers. Many credit him with inventing or popularizing multiple literary genres, including mystery, horror and detective fiction. But the real Poe has become distorted over the years - transformed by fans into a dark and tortured soul obsessed with alcohol and death.My guest is author Mark Dawidziak, and his new book is called "A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe". He not only shares with us what Poe was really like, but also walks us through some of the many theories surrounding Poe's agonizing death in a Baltimore hospital in October of 1849. He also talks about possible explanations for Poe's mysterious three missing days - just before he was discovered, delirious and in another man's clothes, at a Baltimore polling-place.More about the author's prolific work at his website, here: https://www.markdawidziak.com/Connect with the author through Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.dawidziak
Released:
Feb 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
1: Gangsters in 1930s Minnesota with Paul Maccabee - A True Crime History Podcast Hosted by Erik Rivenes: In the 1930s, Saint Paul Minnesota was considered a vacation home for some of the most notorious bank-robbing gangsters of the Depression-era, including John Dillinger and the Barker-Karpis Gang. My guest, Paul Maccabee, wrote the definitive book on... by Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast