stackyFACTSDying tragically is bad enough without your worst enemy writing your final public send-off. A bitter critic named Rufus Griswold wrote Poe's obituary under a pseudonym, actively framing the deceased author as a drunken, depraved lunatic and permanently ruining his personal reputation.
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