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Born in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was called by his parents, actors David Poe and Elizabeth Arnold
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His mother died of tuberculosis,
before reaching the age of three years, and abandoned by his father -
He studied in England, the Manor House School, between 1815 and 1820, when he returned to America to begin his literary activity
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1820, returned to America to begin his literary activity. He joined the West Point Military Academy and later was editor
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In 1824 he wrote a poem of two lines, considered his earlier production, which was not published until after his death.
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he distanced himself from his foster father for economic reasons, because he refused to pay his debts, caused by a lifetime of games and alcohol, dropping out of school, and published in Boston "Tamerlane and Other Poems"
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published in Baltimore, his second book "The Aaraf, Tamerlane and other small poems."
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he is awarded the magazine's Saturday Visiter Baltimore, for his story "Manuscript Found in a Bottle."
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marries a girl of only thirteen years old, his cousin, Virginia Clemm, who settled in Philadelphia.
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Virginia died of tuberculosis in 1847, and the author channeled his anguish in the spirit which led him to madness
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After the death of his wife, published "Eureka, a prose poem
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He died at a hospital in Baltimore, when he had decided to marry the love of his youth, Elvira Sarah Shelton.
