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Edgar Allan Poe was a famous american writer that had a very tragic and short life.
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his father leaves his mother and two other siblings. this will affect how Poe thinks of men.
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poes mother died from tb when he is almost 3. he is sent to foster care with the Allan family
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at age 15 Edgar falls in with with his friends mother. she passes away from brain cancer
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foster mother is sick. foster dad is having relationships with other woman.so he sent Edgar to boarding school with no money.
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foster mother dies of TB, he had a very close relationship with
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after moving in with his aunt he falls in love with his 12 year old cousin
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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 where very poor and he worked his
self to death trying to keep her alive -
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 woman because he is so sad
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Poe is found unconscious on the street Baltimore on Oct 3rd, he is not wearing his own cloths and seems drugged. no one knows what happened to him. he died a few days later in the hospital