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He was born in Boston, MA.
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Her name is Rosalie Mackenzie Poe.
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His father, David Poe, Jr. was an actor.
His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was an actress.
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"Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."
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He enlists in the U.S. Army under the name "Edgar A. Perry."
His first book was a collection of poems called Tamerlane and Other Poems. The author is listed as "A Bostonian." -
His borther Henry also dies of tuberculosis.
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At the age of 27, Poe marries his 13 year old cousin, Virginia Clemm, at a ceremony in Richmond, Virginia.
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The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism.
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Sometime after 1835, having failed to find a publisher, Poe abandoned his proposed Tales of the Folio Club, but not the idea of a collected edition of his prose fiction. Dropping the apparatus of a literary club, and the “burlesques upon criticism,” he combined the original tales with additional items which had appeared in the pages of the Southern Literary Messenger. This new collection of 25 stories became Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. By September of 1839, he had finally convinced a
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"The Raven" appeared in the Evening Mirror and became a popular sensation. Though it made Poe a household name almost instantly,[61] he was paid only $9 for its publication.[62] It was concurrently published in The American Review: A Whig Journal under the pseudonym "Quarles"
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Poe has been so despondent during the final months of her illness that friends thought he was going insane. The loss of his wife sends Poe into a downward spiral of alcoholism.
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After being found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, Edgar Allan Poe is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore