Topic: Richmond (Virginia)

The legacy of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer and literary critic. He was born in Boston, but spent most of his life in Richmond, Virginia. She died eleven years later of tuberculosis, having suffered greatly, for the reason that Poe ...

Biography: Tom Robbins

? True? to this spirit, Tom" Robbins has fascinated his readers with for his unconventional characters, buoyant prose and interesting wordplay. Thomas Eugene Robbins was born in Blowing Rock, North Carolina in 1936. Robbins was expelled from Washington and Lee and later ...

E.A. Poe stamp on sale Friday

Post office releasing new 42-cent stamp to honor Edgar Alan Poe" Bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own imagination," wrote Edgar Alan Poe in "The Assignation. " The melancholy poet, master of merriment and terror, could have been writing about himself.Best known ...