![]() ![]() This article originally appeared in our October 2013 issue. ![]() I modeled my Poe somewhat on Heathcliff, whom I find incredibly sexy. Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife Notes Obscured text due to sticker. The other book I read to get unstuck is Wuthering Heights. It took me decades to question why the barrel was on the hill. My first was about a bear that ate too much honey and had to roll down a hill in a barrel to get home. Yes, he wrote dark tales-because he needed the money, and they sold! But his image as a madman was largely concocted by his rival, Rufus Griswold, who conducted the most extreme smear job in literary history.īeginnings I wrote stories as soon as I could put words together. Poe He was a hard worker, not the drug addict of legend. I don’t know how that works, but when it happens, it’s a high. Even back in Poe’s day, they couldn’t believe how much the city changed each decade.Ĭharacters My greatest thrill as a writer is when they reveal themselves to me. Old New York So much has changed since 1845 it was like learning about a foreign place. ![]()
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