Answer:
No, he wasn't.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer,considered one of the initiators of the genre of horror and sinister stories. During his first years of life, his life was difficult, losing his parents at 3 and being adopted by an adoptive family.
During his later years, he had severe financial and personal difficulties. Thus, at the time he published his famous works, they did not have the success that they would later acquire.
Also, personally, he was not doing much better. He married his cousin Virginia in 1836, but she died in 1847 of tuberculosis. Haunted by these hardships, he tried to kill himself in 1848, and finally died a year later, after having spent a year living on the streets and with alcoholism problems.
All his experiences directly influenced the style of his works, making them gloomy, sad and bleak, just as he considered life to be.
