Which American author wrote 'The Fall of the House of Usher'?

Which American author wrote The Fall of the House of Usher? Edgar Allan Poe wrote it. The Gothic short story first appeared in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in September 1839.

The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits his childhood friend Roderick Usher, a sensitive and increasingly distressed man living in an ancient, decaying mansion. Roderick's twin sister, Madeline, suffers from a mysterious illness, and the family's psychological and physical collapse becomes inseparable from the fate of the house itself.

Poe builds terror through isolation, unreliable perception, illness, premature burial, and the suggestion that the mansion may possess a form of consciousness. A famous structural detail is the crack running down the building's facade, which foreshadows its final destruction. Washington Irving was another important American Gothic writer, but he did not write this tale; H. P. Lovecraft belonged to a later generation.