who is william a wilson author
William Wilson  is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London.t would also form the basis for the Smithereens ' song of the same name, from their 1989 album  11 . There are strains of the story of William Wilson in Andrew Taylor's The American Boy, in which Edgar Allan-Poe is a character.