Richard Kopley, on the Bronx Cottage Where Edgar Allan Poe Suffered His Worst and Wrote his Best by The Gotham Center for New York City History published on 2019-01-04T02:45:55Z Richard Kopley, distinguished professor of literature at Penn State DuBois and the author of "Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries," speaks about the famous writer's cottage in Fordham, The Bronx, where he experienced the desolation of his wife's death, and penned some of his most eternal work. Genre Storytelling