To celebrate the bicentennial year of Richmond’s favorite son, a host of local museums, historical sites, libraries and performing-arts groups are joining forces for a citywide, yearlong celebration of the man, his works and his life.  Here’s a look at what’s going on.

Richmond celebrates the 200th birthday of its favorite son.

Two hundred years ago Monday, Edgar Allan Poe was born to the nightmare-inducing delight of readers everywhere.  Born in Boston, died in Baltimore, writer of some of his great works while in Philadelphia and others while in New York, Poe is claimed by Richmond as one of our own. He moved here when he was 2 his mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, died here and is buried at St. John’s Church, and he took the name Allan in honor of the Richmond family that raised him. He spent more of his 40 years here than anywhere else.