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After Poe was abandoned by his father, he was adopted by wealthy John and Frances Allan Poe. After attending school in England for 5 years. When Poe was 17, he began attending the University of Virginia in 1826.

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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19th, 1809. When he was only three years old, his mother, Elizabeth Poe died of tuberculosis. Shortly after, his father David Poe abandoned Edgar and his brothers.

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Edgar had 2 siblings, Henry Poe and Rosalie Poe who were both adopted by different familys during the split of the family.

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When Poe left to attend college, John Allan Poe  only gave him 1/3 of the money he would need to pay for tuition. On top of being in debt, Edgar began drinking heavily and had to drop of of college within a year.

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After dropping out of college, he moved to Boston to join the army. He reached the rank of sergeant major, but in 1830, John Allen Poe reached out to Edgar and offered to send him to Westpoint Military School. However, he was soon kicked out for not performing his necessary duties.

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The Raven: Perhaps Poe's most well known writing, The Raven is a poem about a grieving man visited by a talking raven that only answers to all the narrator's questions "nevermore".
The Murders in the Rue Morgue: Published in 1841, Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is considered to be the first modern detective story and earned Poe the title "the father of the detective story"
The Tell Tale Heart: Considered to be one of the most iconic short stories of all time, The Tell Tale Heart is the story about one man's fall into insanity as he commits a murder and deals with the guilt of it.

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Days after Poe's death, an obituary was released. The obituary was written and published by Rufus Griswold, who was a writer who Poe had criticized his writing. The obituary and eventual memoir was written as a form of revenge for the review Poe had given Griswold and depicted Poe as a drunkard and womanizer who had no friends or morals. While meant to  distort Poe's image, Griswold's writings only increased sales for Poe's writings higher than they had even been in Poe's lifetime.

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Edgar Allen Poe's works are known across the literary world for their often gruesome content. Most people can agree that his works contain such vast amounts of death because of how much Poe knew in his early life, and that the deaths of both his parents and his young life greatly impacted this great author.

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David-Orange

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A strange thing that happened after Poe had passed. There were demands for a lock of his hair. As he was lying in state, many of his admirers had supposedly tried to obtain pieces of Edgar's hair as a souvenir.

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In Poe's final days he reconnected with his first fiance Sarah Elmira Royster. Her husband had passed and she was now a widow. After dating for a very short period they became engaged. They began to plan the wedding they never had the first time that they were engaged. Unfortunately they would never get married as Poe would die a mysterious death. Still to be wondered about to this day.

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Later on in his life Poe moved in with his aunt and cousin. After living with them for a little while Poe and his cousin ended up marrying. Poe's cousin was only thirteen years old. It was often said that they were more friends than a couple. Edgar loved her very much. She ended up coming down with tuberculosis and after years of watching her suffer she passed. Having to experience and watch his wife die for several years had a big effect on Poe.Watching her die was believed to give he inspiration and grief for some of his writing.

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Collage had seemed to not work out for Poe's interest and financially. He had decided to return home. Poe thought waiting for home at home was his finance, but he was wrong. Poe was engaged to his neighbor at the time Sarah Elmira Royster. When he returned home though he discovered she had been engaged to someone else while he was gone.With a broken heart he set out to Boston in hopes of finding new love.

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The Poe Toaster is a mysterious man that nobody has ever found the identity of and has been leaving half a bottle of cognac and three roses at Poe's grave on the poet's  birthday,  January 19,  and has been doing this since 1949. No one has tried to reveal his identity due to privacy, yet some believe the original Poe Toaster has died, and is now being done by his children. Many believe the reason he lays down three roses are in tribute to the three buried at the sight being Poe, Virginia, and Maria Clemm.

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After Poe moved out of his foster parents, he tried to send a newspaper some of his poetry, but was rejected, and he got into some financial trouble. Poe finally had one of his short stories win a contest in the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. He continued to write more short stories and got a position as editor for the Southern Literary Messenger, where he gained the name "Tomahawk Man" for his ruthless reviews. In 1844 , published his most famous poem "The Raven", which made him a house-hold name, but still received low wages and became a advocate for higher wages for authors.

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His original gravestone

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Poe's death was very sudden and to this day nobody knows how he died. There are many possibilities on how he meet his fate, and some include.
Congestion of the brain,
Alcoholism,
Rabies, epilepsy,  and even
carbon monoxide poisoning.
His last words were,
"Lord, help my poor soul."
Only seven people showed up to Poe's funeral.
Fun Fact:  After Poe's death his cat, Catterina, died believed due to heartbreak.