John Tresch.
JOHN TRESCH
the REASON FOR THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT: EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE FORGING OF AMERICAN SCIENCE (2021)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849 became in his short life a leading writer of short stories and poetry. His work was often macabre, and he is regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction. Poe’s parents were both actors. His father abandoned the family a year after Poe was born, and his mother died a year late from tuberculosis.
The Washington Post described Tresch’s biography of Poe as: ‘Ingenious . . . a rich assemblage of biographical vignettes, brief story analyses and mini-essays on the era's scientific beliefs.’
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John Tresch is Professor of History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice at the Warburg Institute in the University of London. He previously taught the history of science in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania. Tresch has held fellowships at the New York Public Library, Columbia University, amd the University of Chicago. His first degree was in anthropology at the University of Chicago.
