Helen Keller
1880–1968
Author and campaigner, deaf and blind from nineteen months old
Columbarium, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
In memory of
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet and inventor of the detective story
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 40 years
- Resting place
- Westminster Hall Burying Ground, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Poe invented the detective story with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", perfected the modern horror tale, and wrote "The Raven", which made him famous and earned him about nine dollars.
He was found delirious on a Baltimore street in clothes that were not his and died four days later; the cause has never been settled. For decades an unknown visitor left roses and cognac on his grave each January.
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