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Edgar Allan Poe bored in Boston, Maryland. On 19 January, 1809.

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After his father David Poe Jr left his family and his mother Elizabeth Poe died from tuberculosis, Edgar Poe. Mr. and Mrs. Allan raised Edgar in Richmond, Virginia and Europe.

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Poe attends to University of Virginia but doesn't graduates due to insufficient money sent by Mr. Allan. On this years, he publishes his first book called "Tamerlane and Other Poems".

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Years later, he publishes his second poetry collection named "Al Aaraaf, Tamberlane, and Minor Poems". Then, Frances Allan dies due to tuberculosis too.

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In August from this year, Edgar starts his works as staff writer, editor and critic for the Southern Literary Messenger magazine. But, unfortunately, on December 1835, his drinking habits started. This, obligated him to retired.

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Next year, Poe was 27 years old when he married his 13 years old cousin, Virginia Clemm.

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Edgar Allan and his wife move to New York, USA, where he will later publish his very first and only novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket".

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He moves once again, but now to Boston, USA, and publishes the collection Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque, that included "The Fall of the House of Usher". While he was working as assistant editor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.

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Between this year, he launched a new genre of detective and gothic fiction with "The Murder in the Rue Morgue" publish. This kind of writings made Edgar Allan Poe memorable and recognize, mainly because of his implication on each of his stories as the main character.

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Poe wins a literary prize for "The Gold Bug". In this years, he publishes shorts tales like "The Black Cat", "The Tell-tale Heart", "The Purloine Letter", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".

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Virginia Clemm, Edgar Allan Poe's wife died because of tuberculosis. This would be the fourth Poe family member with tuberculosis as their cause of death.

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Finally, Edgar Allan Poe dies on October 7th, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. His cause of death is unknown, but is suspected to be a confession of the brain. And "Lord, help my poor soul" being his last words.

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"Edgar Allan Poe is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as Americas first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe's reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry" Cite: PoeMuseum.org