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As his close friend J. P. Kennedy wrote on October 10, 1849: "On Tuesday last Edgar A. Poe died in town here at the hospital from the effects of a debauch. . . . He fell in with some companion here who seduced him to the bottle, which it was said he had renounced some time ago

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On January 29, 1845, his poem "The Raven" appeared in the Evening Mirror and became a popular sensation. It made Poe a household name almost instantly, though he was paid only $9 for its publication. It was concurrently published in The American Review: A Whig Journal under the pseudonym "Quarles".

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Poe self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. His second poetry collection, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, was published in 1829.

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He married,Virginia Eliza Clemm.She contracted tuberculosis, growing worse for five years until she died of the disease at the age of 24 in the family's cottage, at that time outside New York City.

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Poe left the army and was admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, which he attended from 1830 until 1831.With Allan's help.

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Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful merchant in Richmond, Virginia.The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name "Edgar Allan Poe", though they never formally adopted him.

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His father left him at a very young age,his mother passed away from tuberculosis when he was only three.

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Poe was born January 19,1809 in Boston,MA.