Harry Lee Poe

Harry Lee Poe
Born(1950-11-16)November 16, 1950
United States
EducationUniversity of South Carolina (BA) Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., Ph.D.)[1]
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Main interests
Epistemology, Christian apologetics, philosophy of religion, systematic theology, Edgar Allan Poe, C.S. Lewis, Evangelism
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Harry Lee Poe (born 1950) is an American academic. He is the Charles Colson Chair of Faith and Culture at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, and author of a number of books.

He is a relative of the family of Edgar Allan Poe[2] and president of the Poe Foundation.[3][4] He was the director of the Poe writers conference in 2007.[5]

His book Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories won the Edgar Award for 2009 in the category best critical/biographical. The same book received an Agatha nomination for best non-fiction book.[6]

  1. ^ "Hal L. Poe".
  2. ^ "No one disturbs graceful mystery of Poe visitor". The Daily Courier. January 20, 2003.
  3. ^ "A Paean to Poe". The Washington Post. January 15, 2006.
  4. ^ "Staff". Poe Museum. Archived from the original on 2010-08-18. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
  5. ^ "Edgar Allan Poe Young Writer's Conference". Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  6. ^ "Hal L. Poe: The Union Scholarship Project".