Edgar+A.+Poe's+Fame+and+Fortune

Even though Edger Allan Poe is famous today, he wasn’t in his times. His stories and poems never made him rich, anyways, and people didn’t really think of him that highly durning his time. By the people of his time, Edgar Allan Poe was seen as a drunken man, who could write good poems and storys. Charles Dickens, a famous English author, was starting to write in Poe’s time. Even so, Poe is considered the father of the modern detective story, because his stories sparked many modern ideas in other authors’ minds. Just because Poe was not liked during his time, he is now.