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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston to actresses. Their names were Edgar David Poe, Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins.
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Elizabeth Arnold Poe died in Richmond. Edgar was taken into the family of John Allan, a member of the firm of Ellis and Allan, tobacco-merchants.
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Edgar registered at the University of Virginia. He became an active member of the Jefferson Literary Society. He passed his courses with good grades at the end of the term in December.
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In Boston Poe enlisted in the United States Army as a private. He used the code name Edgar A. Perry.
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Poe was credited with between eighty and ninety reviews, six poems, four essays, and three stories. He was also credited for many editorials and commentaries.
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Poe narried his young cousin, Virginia Clemm, in Richmond, Virginia.
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Poe became an editor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. His career ended June, 1840 when he became an editor of Graham's Magazine.
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Poe's Tales of the Grotesque & Arabesque was published in tow volumes in Philadelphia.
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Edgar Allan Poe began working for a man named George Graham, who offered him $800 a year to work for him as an editor.
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Poe published a fictional novel featuring Auguste C. Duphin, the first-ever fictional detective.
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Poe became famous with his spectacular success of his poem "The Raven."
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Poe's wife, Virginia, became very ill and died. Her dath lead to the beginning of Poe's alcohol problems.
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He died at the ago of 40 in Baltimore. Although the circumstances of Poe's death remain a mystery. It is known to be an effect of alcoholism.
