Edgar Allan Poe is thought to be one of the most controversial and famous writers. According to http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/lit/poe.htm and http://www.eapoe.org/papers/psbbooks/pb19871c.htm, Poe led a very tortured life, which may explain some of his writings. His father abandoned the family while he was a baby, and his mother died of TB before Edgar was three. Poe also married his COUSIN when she was only thirteen. Those things, along with his fascination of gory and Gothic themes allowed him to become a prominent writer, mastering the Gothic genre. Poe is thought to have had an unusually potent right cerebral hemisphere, which normally plays a part in visual imagery, music, emotions, reverie, and self-destructive urges. In one of his works, Rufus Griswold ruined Poe's reputation by misquoting his writings and overplaying his drinking problems. In all reality, Poe was probably just a "one beer wonder" who could not hold his alcohol. Poe's probable mental illness was manic-depressive, which greatly influenced him because of the fact that Poe wrote about dark things like death. He had an apparent fascination with the death of women, but that could be the cause of him seeing so many deaths of women close to him, like his mother and his young cousin-wife.
(The second picture is the different cerebral hemispheres.)
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