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Poe was born on Jan 19, 1809 Boston Massachusetts, the first child of two actors Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe Jr.
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Poe's father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year.
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Poe wrote his first poem Tamerlane.
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Poe unable to support himself, so he enlisted in the United States Army as a private on May 27, 1827, using the name "Edgar A. Perry". He claimed that he was 22 years old though he was 18. He first served at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor for five dollars a month.That same year, he released his first book, a 40-page collection of poetry titled Tamerlane and Other Poems, attributed with the byline "by a Bostonian". Only 50 copies were printed, and the book received virtually no attention.
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Henry traveled around the globe by sea before returning to Baltimore and becoming a published poet and author. One of his works, "The Pirate", was a fictionalized account of his brother's first relationship with Sarah Elmira Royster in Richmond. Henry died of tuberculosis in 1831 at the age of twenty-four.
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In 1835, Poe, then 26, obtained a license to marry his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm. They were married for eleven years until her early death, which may have inspired some of his writing.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was published and widely reviewed in 1838.
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The collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in two volumes, though he made little money from it and it received mixed reviews
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On January 29, 1845, his poem "The Raven" appeared in the Evening Mirror and became a popular sensation. It made Poe a household name almost instantly, though he was paid only $9 for its publication. It was concurrently published in The American Review: A Whig Journal under the pseudonym "Quarles".
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Virginia died at the cottage on January 30, 1847.Biographers and critics often suggest that Poe's frequent theme of the "death of a beautiful woman" stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his wife.
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On October 3, 1849, Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance", according to Joseph W. Walker who found him. He was taken to the Washington Medical College where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849 at 5:00 in the morning.
