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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic. Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.
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Rosalie Mackenzie Poe was born on December 10, 1810 in Norfolk, Virginia. She was the youngest of the three children of David Poe and Eliza Arnold.
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Edgar Allan Poe's mother died of tuberculosis when he was two years old in Richmond, Virginia. His father abandoned his wife and children and soon died of tuberculosis just as his wife did.
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A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."
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Edgar Allan Poe enlists in the U.S. Army under the name "Edgar A. Perry." Shortly after, his first book entitled—Tamerlane and Other Poems—is published.
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William Henry Leonard Poe referred to as Henry Poe was said to be a heavy drinker and may have been an alcoholic. He died of tuberculosis in Baltimore. He was twenty-four.Henry was buried at what is now Westminster Hall and Burying Ground.
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Virginia Clemm 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.
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Poe's first novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is the only complete novel written by him. The novel relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus.
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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. It was published by the Philadelphia firm Lea & Blanchard and released in two volumes.
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The Raven is a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe. First published in 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness.
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In January 1842, Virginia 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.
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Edgar Allan Poe was found in a Baltimore street (some reports say in a gutter), semi-conscious and wearing clothes that didn't fit him. He was taken to a hospital, where he spent four days before perishing on 7 October 1849 at the age of 40, but no one knows exactly what happened to Edgar Allan Poe.
