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Where and when Edgar Allan Poe is born...

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Where and when Edgar Allan Poe is born...

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Edgar Allan Poe was born was born on January 19th, 1809. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

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What happened to Poe's mother and father?

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What happened to Poe's mother and father?

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Edgar Allan Poe's father left the family when he was only two, and then his mother passed away from tuberculosis when he was three.

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Edgar was taken in by John Allan and his wife. The Allan's had no children of their own. Although Edgar was never legally adopted by the Allan's, they treated him as family and gave him the middle name "Allan".

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What famous military school did Poe attend and what happened while he was there?

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What famous military school did Poe attend and what happened while he was there?

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Poe went to the very popular: United States Military Academy at West Point. Poe was a very good student at his studies at West Point, but he was kicked out after a year for his poor job of his duties.

When he was there, Poe fought with his foster father who remarried most likely out of anger.

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Who did Poe marry and what happened to her?

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Who did Poe marry and what happened to her?

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Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe. She became sick with tuberculosis and died of it at the age of 24 on January 30, 1847.

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What was the name of Poe's first published literary?

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What was the name of Poe's first published literary?

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In 1827, after Edgar moved to Boston, he published his first book named "Tamerlane and Other Poems".

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Which poems made Poe famous and when were they written?  

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Which poems made Poe famous and when were they written?  

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Best Known For: Edgar Allan Poe was a writer and critic famous for his dark, mysterious poems and stories, including ‘The Raven,’ ‘The Black Cat’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’

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Edgar Allan Poe died October 7, 1849. The newspaper reported that he died of "congestion of the brain."

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Edgar Allan Poe is buried on the grounds of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

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What tragic childhood events influenced his writing? 

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What tragic childhood events influenced his writing? 

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He lost the woman he loved very early, including his moter, adoptive mother, and his wife to tuberculosis.

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What are the theories on what caused Poe's death?

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What are the theories on what caused Poe's death?

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There are several theories on what caused Poe's death. The theories include brain tumor, murder, suicide, rabies, syphilis influenza, cholera, and hypoglycemia. Some people say he died of mercury poisoning or carbon monoxide poisoning from spending too much time indoors and breathing in too much coal gas.

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Who is Edgar Allan Poe? Introduction - Classics and Chill

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The Simpsons - Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven

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How did Poe start his writing career? What was he doing?

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How did Poe start his writing career? What was he doing?

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Poe started his writing career by moving to Baltimore with his Aunt, Maria Clemm. There, he began writing short stories, publishing them to the Philidelphia Saturday Courier.

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"Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see." -Edgar Allan Poe

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The "Murders in the Rue Morgue" were the first of which genre? 

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The "Murders in the Rue Morgue" were the first of which genre? 

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The "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first modern detective story which was both confusing to the characters in the story and the people reading it.

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The Poe Toaster was an unidentified person (or persons), who paid an annual tribute to Edgar Allan Poe for several decades. To this day, the identity of the Toaster is still unknown.

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A gothic novel is associated with mystery, horror, supernatural, and the unknown. It almost always includes intense emotion, terror, pleasure, death, and romance.

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-He was named after a Shakespeare character
-No one actually knows how he died
-He was a champion swimmer
-He dropped out of college
-His first book was published at 18
-Poe was the first American Professional Writer
-He was in the army