BIOGRAPHY Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, CA, in 1934, the daughter of an officer in the Army Air Corps. From the start of her life, Didion took an interest in reading and writing. In fact, Didion was “a shy, bookish child… Didion spent her teenage years typing out Ernest Hemingway stories to learn …
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was one of the most famous of the Gothic writers that came about at the end of the American Renaissance. Famous for his short stories and poetry about murders and mystery such as “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Raven,” his literary criticism …