This event has been rescheduled for November 2, 2025. 
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Dr. Kopley's talk will comprise excerpts from his book Edgar Allan Poe: A Life (University of Virginia Press, 2025), excerpts that include accounts of Poe in Richmond in 1836 drawn from newly recovered letters of 1908 and 1909 by Flora Lapham Mack, the stepdaughter of Poe's best friend, John H. Mackenzie.

Richard Kopley, Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, Penn State DuBois, has written and edited books that focus on nineteenth-century American literature, with particular attention to Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. They are accessible and revealing works of analysis and discovery. Kopley received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement & Service Award from the Poe Studies Association.

 “Kopley tells us he has read and researched Poe for so long, the writer has become a friend. Read Edgar Allan Poe and make him yours.”
–Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life