THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
It was a dreary day in Charm City when a typesetter from the Baltimore Sun discovered an incoherent, delirious man close to death in the gutter outside of a public house called Gunner’s Hall. The typesetter recognized the man at once, for it was Edgar Allan Poe, the famed poet and author.
BEHIND THE PERFUME: MARY SHELLEY'S UNHALLOWED ART
Mary died on February 1 1851. Her son Percy Florence was there at her side. When Percy Florence died in 1889, he was buried with the ashes of his father’s heart.
BEHIND THE COLOGNE: DHARMA BUM
Iconoclast. Pioneer of the Beat Generation. Catholic. Dharma Bum. Just a few descriptors that comprise the complicated identity of one of the 20th Century's most famous writers, Jack Kerouac.