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He was born in Boston, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr. He had an elder brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, and a younger sister, Rosalie Poe. Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.
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Edgar's sister name is Rosalie Poe and she was born 1 year after Edgar. She was the youngest in the siblings.
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Edgar's father, David Poe Jr. abandoned his family in 1810 and his mother died a year later from consumption which also take his father life within days later.
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Edgar wrote his first poem when he was 15. The poem was called "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."
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Edgar published his first book - a poetry collection called "Tamerlane and Other Poems." However, he doesn't contribute the book to his name. The author is only listed as "A Bostonian." Shortly after his first book, he was enlisted in the military.
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When Edgar was 22, his brother Henry passed away of unsure deseases either tuberculosis or cholera at the age of 27.
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At 27, he married his cousin named Virginia Clemm, who is 14 years his junior, at a ceremony in Richmond, Virginia.
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He published his very first novel called "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" at the age of 29.
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In 1840, he published his story collection in two volumes entitled as "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque."
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Edgar published his poem, "The Raven" which is very successful that brings him to fame. He became an editor and owner of a magazine company called the "Broadway Journal."
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Edgar's wife died of tuberculosis in their home. She was only 24. He was saddend and heartbroken to the point where his friends thought he was going insane. The loss of his wife turned him into an alchoholic person.
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The day of his death he was found unconcious in the street and wearing cloths that was not his own. Nobody's really sure what's the causes of his death is until today because all the medical records of him had been lost. he was buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.
