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Birth of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. -
Poe's sister is born
Edgar Allan Poe's sister Rosalie was reputedly born in December 1810, but there is no solid documentary evidence for this claim. All we know is that she was born long enough after the mysterious disappearance of her mother Eliza's husband, David Poe, for questions to arise about the child's paternity. -
Eliza Poe's Death
In 1811, while staying at a boarding house in Richmond, Virginia for a performance, Eliza began spitting blood. Eliza finally died on Sunday morning, December 8, 1811, at the age of twenty-four, surrounded by her children.It is generally assumed that she died of tuberculosis.She is buried at St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond. Though the burying place is unknown, a memorial marks the general area. -
Poe writes first poem
Poe writes a two-line poem: “— Poetry - Edgar A. Poe — Last night, with many cares & toils oppres‘d, Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest —.” -
Poe enlists to the army
Still unable to support himself, Poe enlisted in the United States Army on May 26, 1827, under the pseudonym "Edgar A. Perry." (He was eighteen at the time but claimed to be twenty-two.) During his military service, he was stationed at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island in Charleston, South Carolina—a site he would later appropriate as the setting for his story, "The Gold Bug"—and then at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. -
Poe's older brother dies
Edgar Allan Poe's brother died of tuberculosis. Its a long process so it put Edgar in much pain just like his wife Virginia and his foster mother Frances Allan. -
Poe marries his 13 year old cousin
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (née Clemm; August 15, 1822 – January 30, 1847) was the wife of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The couple were first cousins and married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27. Some biographers have suggested that the couple's relationship was more like that between brother and sister than like husband and wife in that they may have never consummated their marriage. In January 1842 she contracted tuberculosis, growing worse for five years until she died of the disea -
Poe writes his first novel
The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes increasingly strange and hard to classify. Poe, who intended to present a realistic story, was inspired by several real-life accounts of sea voyages, and drew heavily from Jeremiah N. Reynolds and referenced the Hollow Earth theory. -
Collection of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
This new collection of 25 stories became Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. By September of 1839, he had finally convinced a publisher to print this two-volume set. -
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem "The Raven," beginning "Once upon a midnight dreary," is published on this day in the New York Evening Mirror. -
Poe's wife dies
In January 1842 she contracted tuberculosis, growing worse for five years until she died of the disease at the age of 24 in the family's cottage outside New York City. -
Poe's death
In the early morning hours of October 7, Poe calmly breathed a simple prayer, "Lord, help my poor soul," and died. His cause of death was ascribed to "congestion of the brain."
