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Edgar Allan Poe was born on january 19, 1809 in Bosten, Massatusetts to Elizabeth Hopkins and David Poe
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In 1826 Poe went to the University of Virginia in Richmond.
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In 1827 first poem was published it was called "The Dreams"
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In 1827 He also had his first book published it was called Tamerlane and Other Poems
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In 1835 he became the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger.
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In 1836 he married a woman whose name was Virginia Clemm in Baltimore, Maryland. They did not have any children
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In 1839 he joined the Bartons Gentlemans Magazine as an assistant editor.
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he left the Bartons Gentlemans Magazine in 1940 to publish his first detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
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in 1847 Poes wife Virginia died from tuberculosis
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Poe died on October 7, 1849 he now rests in the Old Westminster Burying Ground of Baltimore
