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Edgar Allan Poe was a famous american writer who had a very tragic and short life
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His father leaves his mother and two other siblings this will affect how Edgar opinion of men
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Poe's mother dies of TB when he is almost 3. He is sent to foster care with the Allen family
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At age 15 Edgar falls in love with his friends mother and she passes away from brain cancer
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Foster mother is sick foster father having affairs, he sends him to boarding school with no money. Edgar is very poor
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Foster mother dies of TB he had a very close relationship
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After moving in with his Aunt he falls in love with his 12 year old 1st cousin. 1835
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Poe and his cousin are married when she is almost 13 and he is 26. They have a happy life together
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Poe knows that she will die, they are very poor and he worked his self to death trying to keep her alive.
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He gets paid only 14 dollars for this famous poem
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This causes him to drink more and he begins trying to find another women because he is so sad.
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Poe is found unconscious on a street Baltimore on October 3rd, he is not wearing his own clothes and seemed drugged.No one knows what happened to him. He died a few days later in the hospital