What is a good literary author to write about for a research paper? I was thinking Edgar Allan Poe,any ideas?

My research paper is do in a couple weeks and im panicking. Please help me with an author and some ideas please.

What is a good literary author to write about for a research paper? I was thinking Edgar Allan Poe,any ideas?
To contradict the first post, Poe was a very interesting person. Possibly the most interesting is the way he almost predicted his own life in his poems, such as "The Bells", where he wrote about the loss of a newly married loved one - something that only happened to him years later. He was also a drunk, much like Hemingway, and Fitzgerald.





I was just learning about Fitzgerald actually, and highly recommend him as well. He had a very interesting life, which was much like a roller coaster, and his books were often actually based upon the parts he was most ashamed of.





For some authors that had a somewhat brighter side, one may look toward Mark Twain, the novelist and speaker extraordinaire, and the writer of the famed Tom Sawyer, and inventor. His hilarious accounts of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, actually, were memories of his and his friends' childhoods. I highly recommend him.





Lastly, for a slower pace, you might choose Henry David Thoreau, who wrote Walden, his accounts and memories of his life in a small, secluded, hut in the mountains. A transcendentalist, he is a very interesting person with very interesting poems and short stories. (if you want something that you can read a lot about in a short time, It would be easier to choose him).





I hope my information helped, BP
Reply:poe is not overdone. he was an excellent author and it would probably be very easy to write a research paper on him. the best advice i can give you is this, pick an author you like because the more passionate you are about your subject matter the easier the words will flow from pen to paper.
Reply:Poe is old and so overdone.





Hemingway, Keats, even Shelly (the girl) was 17 when she wrote Frankenstein.