This year is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of writer Edgar Allan Poe．Edgar Allan Poe, whose life was 1 and seemingly unhappy, wrote stories and poems of mystery and 2 , insanity(疯狂)and death．Edgar went to live with the family of a wealthy Richmond businessman named John Allan after both his parents died．John Allan never officially 3 him as a son, but the boy became known as Edgar Allan Poe．
Edgar Allan Poe did something 4 for writers of his time：he used a narrator in a story to 5 what was happening．Edgar Allan Poe is also remembered as the father of modern 6 fiction, stories of an investigator who has to solve murders and other 7 ．Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, wrote about how Poe 8 other crime writers：“Their main art must trace back to those admirable stories of Monsieur Dupin”．Dupin is a 9 that appears in a series of Allan Poe’s detective stories．
Allan Poe was born in 1 809 and died in 1 849．Every year on January nineteenth, Poe’s birthday, a man dressed in black 10 ．His face is covered．He places a bottle of wine and three roses on Poe’s grave．No one really wants to know the visitor’s identity．They prefer that it remain a mystery, much like Edgar Allan Poe himself．