What is Edgar Allan Poe's epitaph?

Edgar Allan Poe’s epitaph was “Quoth the Raven nevermore,” from his poem “The Raven” (1845).

Where did the author of Letters from an American Farmer (1787) do his farming? Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813), also known as J. Hector St. John, was born in France, emigrated to Canada, and in 1759, moved to New York. He settled in Orange County, New…
What detective did Edgar Allan Poe invent? Edgar Allan Poe invented detective C. Auguste Dupin, the coolly logical amateur sleuth of three stories published in the 1840s: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The…
How did Thomas Chatterton (1752-70) die? Thomas Chatterton was the author of several pseudo fifteenth-century poems supposedly written by monk Thomas Rowley. He committed suicide in his London garret by taking arsenic at age seventeen, driven to despair by…
What is the source of the phrase “What hath God wrought”? The phrase "What hath God wrought" comes from the Bible, Numbers 23:23. It is now best known as the first message sent by telegraph, May 28, 1844.
Who played Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment USA (1959)? George Hamilton played Robert Cole, a character based on Raskolnikov, in this strange version of Feodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment set in Santa Monica, California. It was Hamilton's screen debut.
How did Sherwood Anderson die? The author of Winesburg, Ohio (1919) Sherwood Anderson died of peritonitis after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail party in 1941.