The author of this biography of Poe, Susan Weiss, describes her work as follows: "I have not treated Poe in his character of poet or author, but confined myself to his private home-life, domestic and social, as I have heard it described by Poe's most intimate friends who knew him from infancy-some of them my own relatives-and from my own brief knowledge of him in the last three months of his life." - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi
