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Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were Elizabeth and David Poe, but his father left soon after his birth. his mother died of tuberculosis when Edgar was only three years old.

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After his mother's death, Poe was adopted by John and Frances Allan. Poe formed an amazing relationship with his mother, but did not really like his dad.

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This is the military academy Poe attended after he left the army. This military school is called West Point.

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This is where Edgar Allan Poe went to school.

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Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. Days after Poe's death, his rival, Rufus Griswold wrote an obituary about Poe. He showed Poe as a madman with no friends, and no meaning.

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While Poe was alive, he was never wealthy during his life and became important and noticed after his life was over. It always seemed like he was scraping the bottom of the barrel until "The Raven" where he gained some popularity and some wealth, but he was never above the middle class in society while making his own living.

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-Congestion of the brain
-Alcoholism
-Rabies
-ePOElepsy
-Carbon Monoxide POEisoning

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- Poe's father abandoned him at a very young age.
- His mother died of tuberculosis.
- Poe was forced to drop out of school, because of financial issues.
- His wife, Virginia Clemm, died of tuberculosis.

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"Tamerlane" was Poe's first published book. He was only eighteen years old when he wrote it. "Tamerlane" was published in July of 1827.

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The Poe Toaster is a man who shows up at Poe's gravesite every year on Poe's birthday, January 19. He leaves a half full bottle of cognac and three roses. The identity of the Poe Toaster remains a mystery.

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This is a picture of the infamous Poe Toaster.

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Poe's father sent him to the University of Virginia, but he only gave him 1/3 of the funding needed. Poe was extremely smart and excelled in academics, but he needed money to stay in school. Edgar Allan decided that he would make the money needed for school by gambling, but this ended up not working, and he ended up extremely poor. He was so desperately poor that he was burning his furniture  to stay warm. Eventually, Poe dropped out of college and returned home, furious with John Allan.

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After he left University, he joined the U.S. Army at the age of 18. He did reasonably well and obtained the rank sergeant major. Eventually, he left because his adopted mother was dying of tuberculosis.

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Poe may have been known for his poems but he was also well known for the many short stories he made. He was the first person to make a detective story. This first detective story was "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Some of his other well known stories are "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat". Poe's stories are very dark and you could tell by how crazy his stories were that he had a few screws loose in his brain.

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Edgar Allan Poe's most notable work is "The Raven", published in 1845 in the New York Evening Mirror. It talks about an unknown narrator who is mourning the loss of his love Lenore when a Raven flies into his room and consistently repeats the word "Nevermore." Poe's wife Virginia was dying of tuberculosis at the time of him writing the POEm and he was majorly influenced by this. You can find the poem at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven.

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His first love, Sarah Elmira Royster, got engaged to another man while Poe was serving in the army. His second love was his cousin, Virginia Clemm. She was only thirteen years old when she married twenty-six year old Poe. Virginia died on January 30, 1847, when Virginia was twenty-four. She died of tuberculosis.

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This is a play on words if you read the poem "The Raven".

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Edgar Allan Poe has affected many of our lives in many different ways. He is remembered as the father of the detective story and was the first notable person to have written a detective story. Edgar Allan Poe is well known for all of his POEms and short stories that he wrote. Poe became one of the biggest enduring writers, or POEts.

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Blue - Chloe
Yellow - Quinn
Pink - Lily
Purple - Ricky

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-At least 81 films have been based off of Poe's works.
-A lot of TV shows have used the plot lines that Poe used in his stories.
- lines of songs feature lines of Poe's literary works.
-Laura Lippman wrote a novel in 2001 wrote a story about the "Poe Toaster".