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Authors: Kevin J. Hayes

Edgar Allan Poe (25 page)

Acknowledgements

Seldom do I have the opportunity to teach what I write, but happily the composition of this Poe biography coincided with the Poe seminar I teach every other year. Since Poe’s life and work prompted many lively classroom discussions, I would like to thank the students in that seminar: Lauren Brandeberry, Lauren Burn, Jennifer Canham, Malory Craft, James Dickson, Kara Evans, Cheryl Phillips, Jennifer Pruit, Katie Shinn, Heidi Silcox, William Totten and Drew White. At Reaktion Books, I would like to thank Martha Jay for asking me to undertake this project and for seeing it through the press. I would also like to thank Michael Leaman for his helpful suggestions and Ian Blenkinsop for his patience. As always, I thank my wife Myung-Sook for her encouragement and support throughout the composition of this volume.

Photo Acknowledgements

The author and publishers wish to express their thanks to the following sources of illustrative material and / or permission to reproduce it:

Photos courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington,
DC
: pp. 6, 19, 26, 31, 35, 40, 41, 46, 47, 51, 57, 62, 66, 68, 69, 77, 94, 100, 118, 121, 125, 128, 138, 139, 152; frame enlargement from Roger Vadim’s ‘Metzengerstein’, the first segment of the omnibus film
Histories extraordinaires
(Cocinor, 1968): p. 23; frame enlargement of James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber’s
The Fall of the House of Usher
(Watson and Webber, 1928): p. 82; Alfred Kubin,
Hans Pfaalls Mondreise und Andere Novellen
(Berlin, 1920): p. 110.

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