Edgar Allan poe was born in a Boston (Massachusetts)
When he was 2 years old his father abandoned his family
Since he was a child he liked to spend time reading magazines
With no money and no job he decided to join the US Army
His stepfather John Allen at this point decided to make up with his son and got him in a place to continue his studies in the Military Academy at West Point in 1830.
In 1834 his father died without including him in his will
Edgar was furious but he kept fighting to survive and in 1835 (he was 26 years old) he got a job as an editor for the art and literature magazine SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER in Richmond. There Edgar built his reputation as a fierce critic
When he was 27 the poet married his cousin Virginia and he was only 13 years old.
In 1840 Edgar joined George R. Graham at the Graham’s magazine
In 1845 he published his first great horror story “THE RAVEN”a masterpiece in American literature
In 1847 when he was only 24 the same age of her biological mother and older brother when they died, his wife died of tuberculosis
