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On January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe's father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia.
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Rosalie Mackenzie Poe was born on November 20, 1810
Norfolk, Virginia. Daughter of David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Poe
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Both parents died in 1811, and Poe became an orphan before he was 3 years old.
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Poe enlist in the U.S. Army and shortly after his first book is published.
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William Henry Leonard Poe, often referred to as Henry Poe, (January 30, 1807 – August 1, 1831) was a sailor, amateur poet and the older brother of Edgar Allan Poe and Rosalie Poe.
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Edgar Allan Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin, Virginia Clemm
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Poe writes his first novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"
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"Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque " is published in two volumes
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Poe publishes the poem "The Raven"
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Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx
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He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story.Theories as to what caused Poe's death include suicide, murder, cholera, hypoglycemia, rabies, syphilis, influenza, and that Poe was a victim of cooping. Evidence of the influence of alcohol is strongly disputed.
