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Edgar Allan Poe - Writer | Mini Bio | BIO

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

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Poe's mother and father were not part of Edgar Allan Poe's life that long. Poe's father left early in Poe's life. Then later on when Poe was three years old Poe's mother died from tuberculosis.

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The way Edgar Allan Poe got the middle name "Allan" was from this very wealthy foster family. Two people, John and France Allan, took Poe in as a foster child because he was an orphan. The foster parents gave Edgar Poe a middle name -Allan.

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The famous military school Poe attended was, "U.S. Military Academy at West Point". While Poe was attending the military school, he keep missing class in order to get himself kicked out of the military school. He was successful.

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Poe first married his thirteen year old cousin, Virginia. She died of tuberculosis 12 years after their marriage.

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The name of Poe's first published literary work was the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.

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The Raven, which was written in 1845, was one of Poe's most famous poems that he had ever written.

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Poe died on October 7, 1849 while in Baltimore for a trip. He was found half-conscious in the street and taken to the hospital. He died four days later in the hospital. No one knows how he died. His last words were "Lord, help my poor soul."

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Poe was buried on October 9, 1849, 2 days after his death. He was buried at Westmister Hall and Burying Ground.

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Poe had a very tragic childhood, by the age of 3, he was an orphan. Both of his biological parents passed away. He was then sent to a foster home, which was poor. His foster family never formally adopted Poe and in order to get money for his personal use, he was forced to join the army. All of these childhood traumas eventually influenced many of Poe's works.

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There are many theories that circulted after Poe's death. The most common theory that experts place confidence in is that of alcoholism, especilly since he drank alot after Virginia's death. Other theroies include, carbon monoxide posioning, epilepsy, rabies, and even being kidnapped then beaten by political deliquents.

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When Poe was young, he has always wanted to write literature. When he put out one of his first pieces of literature, "The Raven" (Jan 29, 1845), came out, he was working as a magazine editor.

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The "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was said to be one of the first pieces of literature to host a detective story and is said to be the book that started the genre.

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The Poe toaster was a way of  honoring Poe. Every year a person dressed in all black with a white scarf would go to Poe's grave late at night on Poe's birthday and set down 3 roses.

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Gothic literature includes a very dark or startling tone. Usually, gothic literature also hosts a romantic part of the story it tells. The reason gothic literature is so well known today is because it is a very old and unsettling genre that a lot of writing steams from today.