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Edgar Allan Poe was born on the 19th of January 1809 in Boston -
When he was 2 years old his father abandoned his family.
A little bit later his mother died leaving Edgar, his brother and his sister orphans. They were separated and Edgar was adopted by Allen family -
Since he was a kid he loved spending time reading magazines, he started writing poems at the age of 14 years old.
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At the age of 17 he was already attending The University of Virginia but his father stopped sending him money. He started drinking and became an alcohol addict and he had to leave the college. -
Without money and without a job he decided to enter (to enlist) the US Army in 1827. He was 18 years old and in the same year he published 2 books “TAMERLANE AND OTHER POEMS” and ”AL AARAAF”. -
Edgar begins West Point Military Academy in 1830.
In the same year his father remarried. Edgar began to argue constantly until his father cut off all contact with him. -
Edgar was expelled from the academy and in 1834 his father died
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Edgar was furious but continued to fight to survive and in 1835 (he was 26 years old) he found work as an editor for the art and literary magazine SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER in Richmond. There Edgar built a reputation as a fierce critic.
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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. -
In the end he died on October 7th 1849 maybe because of brain congestion or his alcoholism but his death still remains a great mystery since the death certificate never appeared.