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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. -
Edgar was addopted by Allen family -
Since he was a kid he loved spending time reading magazines, he started writing poems . -
At the age of 17 he was already attending The University of Virginia -
He started drinking and became an alcohol addict and he had to leave the college -
His stepfather John Allen decided to take him to continue the studies in the military academy at West Point. -
He moved with his grandmother and his aunt. -
Without money and without a job he decided to enter (to enlist) the US Army in 1827. He was 18 years old. -
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. -
When he was 27 the poet married his cousin Virginia and he was only 13 years old. -
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 as 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.