282: The Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe w/ Mark Dawidziak

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

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

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1:02.8	Back again, and I am so pleased to have Mark Dawidziak as my guest today.
1:09.3	He is a former adjunct professor at Kent State University in the former television
1:14.8	critic for the plane dealer in Cleveland, 43 years in journalism, and he is the author
1:21.3	of a great many books including Mark Twain for Cat lovers, the bedside bathtub armchair
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1:46.5	It is called A Mystery of Mysteries, the death and life of Edgar Allen Poe.
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