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Edgar Allan Poe Should be Writing or Sleeping, Not Doing a Crossword Puzzle

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Published on January 18, 2009

Adam Rex, Edgar Allen Poe
Adam Rex, Edgar Allen Poe

Oh, Poe knows he should be working on the poet work he’s shirking,
Whilst the raven still is lurking on the bust above his door.
It’s just 7 Down that keeps our peep from getting any sleep: 
“Crusading wife of former Veep? I’m sure I’ve had this one before!”
“But what the devil is a Veep?” he weeps, as lo, the clock strikes four.
Quoth the raven,

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[Text and illustrations from Frankenstein Takes the Cake, copyright © 2008 by Adam Rex, posted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.]

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Adam Rex

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Adam Rex began working for companies such as Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR while still attending the University of Arizona. He was honored to have two illustrations accepted into the Society's Annual Scholarship Competition in 1993 and 1997. He would consider it a personal favor if you didn't look them up.

Adam now works primarily in children's publishing, writing and illustrating books for clients such as Harcourt, Hyperion, Random House, and Penguin. His first novel, The True Meaning of Smekday, was released in 2007, and his book Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich is a New York Times Bestseller. He is currently striving to write as well as he draws and draw as well as he paints, as well as learning to play the theremin.

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