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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
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Rosalie Mackenzie Poe was best known as the younger sister of American author Edgar Allan Poe. After the deaths of their parents, the children were split up.
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Poe's father and mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old.
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A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."
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Poe enlists in the U.S. Army under the name "Edgar A. Perry." Shortly after, his first book—a poetry collection entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems—is published.
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Edgar's older brother Henry dies of either tuberculosis or cholera at the age of 27.
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Poe—now 27 years old—marries his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, at a ceremony in Richmond, Virginia.
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Poe's first novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published.
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Poe's story collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes.
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One of his most famous poems.
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The loss of his wife sends Poe into a downward spiral of alcoholism.
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After being found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, Edgar Allan Poe is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.
