Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston and he died shortly after participating in a vote-fraud scheme. Today marks his 201st birthday, which means that his bicentennial year is over.
UPDATE: Nevermore? Has a decades-old Poe birthday ritual gone to its grave?
About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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