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[Gasp]! It's a boy!!!! Born in Boston Mass. to a Mrs. Virginia Poe, and to a Mr. David Poe Jr.
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Poe's sister was born as Rosalie Mackenzie Poe on December 10, 1810.
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By 1811, his father had abandoned the family, leaving Elizabeth Poe alone with two-year-old Edgar, his elder brother Henry, and his infant sister Rosalie. And things soon got worse. On 8 December 1811, Elizabeth Poe died of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia.
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First poem was in a collection of poems along with Tamerlane
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Yes, in that order.
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William Henry Poe was a sailor and writer.
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"Here Comes the bride, Here comes the bride"
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He was an author AND a Poet? The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus.
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Arguably his most famous poem, and is what he is most known for. Was made into a movie.
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Virginia Poe died of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx in New York.
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Included Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
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One of the most recent theories about Poe's death suggests that the author succumbed to a brain tumor, which influenced his behavior before his death. When Poe died, he was buried, rather unceremoniously, in an unmarked grave in a Baltimore graveyard.
