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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts in the year 1809 on January 19th.
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Edgar's sister was born in Norfolk, Virginia December 10th 1810
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Edgar's parents died on December 8th 1811. His mother died of tuberculosis and his father left the family. They both died in Virginia.
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In the year of 1824 Edgar wrote his first poem.
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Edgar enlisted into the army and shortly after he did that he wrote his first book. In the year on May 26th 1827
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Poe's older brother William died in August on the first in the year 1831 from Tuberculosis in Baltimore Maryland
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Edgar married his thirteen year old cousin Virginia Clemm, who was born in Baltimore Maryland. She was also born on the 15th of August 1822.
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Poe writes his first novel which is about Pym stowing away on a whaling ship later taken over by pirates.
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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
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Poe publishes the raven and is a poem that tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness.
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Edgar's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx on January 30th 1847
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Edgar Allan Poe dies on October 7th 1849. The cause of death is still uncertain.