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- Born on January 19, 1809.
- In Boston, Massachusetts.

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- He didn't really know his parents.
- His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was a British Actress.
- His father, David Poe, Jr. was an actor in Baltimore
- His mother passed away when he was three.
- His father abandoned the family and died.

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- His new family moved to England and he went to school.
- He attended the University of Virginia in 1826.

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- His mother died.
- His father left.
- He was adopted and his foster father did not get along with him.

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- He used to write poems when he was young.
- When he married Virginia, he published short stories.

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- an unidentified person / group of people who, for over seven decades, paid an annual tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by visiting his grave.

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- Poe married his cousin Virginia in 1836.
- She was 13 and he was 24.
- Virginia died in 1874 at the age of 24 due to tuberculosis.

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- It was the first detective fiction short story.
- His stories feature dead or dying young women.

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- "The Raven"
- "Annabel Lee"
- "The Tell-Tale Heart"
- "The Cask of Amontillado"
- "The Fall of the House of Usher"

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https://poets.org/poems/edgar-allan-poe

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- He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point.
- He went to the army under an assumed name, Edgar A. Perry.
- He enjoyed military school but did not like the military.
- He wrote a book of poetry  but did not take credit for the publication.
- His brother died and he became a starving writer and his foster father would not help him.
- He also published his second book of poems.

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- Died on October 7, 1849.
- His final days are a mystery. Supposedly he was on his way to Philadelphia.
- Experts believe it could have been alcoholism, rabies, carbon monoxide poisoning, diabetes, drug overdose, heart disease, epilepsy, etc.
- Buried at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

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- When he was 15, he wrote his first poem "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."

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- When he was adopted by John and Frances Allan, he got the second last name "Allan"