Burling Hull [SEP] date of death
Burling Hull
Burling Hull (September 9, 1889 – November 1982) was an inventive magician, self-styled "the Edison of magic," specializing in mentalism and sleight of hand effects. During the greater part of his life he lived in DeLand, Florida. His aliases and stage names included: "Volta the Great", "The Man with the Radar Mind", "The White Wizard," and "Gideon ('Gid') Dayn."
Career.
Hull claimed to be —
According to the text, Pym arrives at the island of Tsalal on January 19—Poe's birthday. Some scholars, including Burton R. Pollin and Richard Wilbur, suggest that the character of Augustus was based on Poe's childhood friend Ebenezer Burling; others argue he represents Poe's brother William Henry Leonard Poe, who served in South America and elsewhere as a sailor aboard the USS "Macedonian". In the novel, the date of Augustus's death corresponds to that of the death of Poe's brother. The first chapter features Pym