Lynn Cullen

Huffingtonpost, October 7: 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Edgar Allen Poe

On October 7, lovers of the mysterious and the melancholy mourn the death of Edgar Allan Poe.  As is appropriate for the man who invented the detective story, he died 164 years ago under baffling circumstances. Scholarly debate still rages as to why he was found, four days before his death, delirious and in borrowed …

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Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Chalice

The fierce ambitions and dangerous rivalries of literary New York in the 1840’s come vividly alive in Lynn Cullen’s riveting novel Mrs. Poe.  With masterful skill, Cullen tells the story of the real-life fatal attraction between the toast-of-the-town Gothic storyteller  Edgar Allan Poe and vulnerable poet Frances Sargent Osgood. The fact that both are unhappily married did not sanction …

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