Edgar Allen Poe – Liza Ketchum https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog Thu, 19 Mar 2015 01:33:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 76312305 Forget The Raven: This Vermont Griswold became real-life Edgar Allan Poe foe https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/forget-the-raven-this-vermont-griswold-became-real-life-edgar-allan-poe-foe/ https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/forget-the-raven-this-vermont-griswold-became-real-life-edgar-allan-poe-foe/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:56:27 +0000 https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/?p=338 Rufus Wilmot Griswold By Uncredited [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Rufus Wilmot Griswold By Uncredited [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Griswold, the town in Fire in the Heart, was named for my early Vermont ancestors.

One Griswold who began life in Vermont became a controversial literary figure and rival to famed author Edgar Allan Poe.

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