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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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New Lead on Poe's Death Excites Buffs 

Accounts of Poe's brain may solve 'biggest literary mystery'

(Newser) - Accounts of Edgar Allan Poe's exhumed brain may prove how he died, says Matthew Pearl, author of The Poe Shadow. He found reports of Poe's "dried and hardened" brain, "diminished in size," in old newspapers—and confirmed them as signs of a tumor. One Poe descendant says... More »

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