Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot
February 13, 1815 – August 27, 1857 (aged 42)
Birth place: Benson, Vermont, USA
<br> Griswold succeeded Edgar Allan Poe as editor of <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?25770"><i>Graham's Magazine</i></a>, a monthly literary magazine based in Philadelphia. Later he edited an important edition of Poe's works.