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The second son of two actors, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809. He was orphaned before he was 3, in Richmond, Virginia. He was in the room with his older brother when his mother died, and he spent more than two days with the corpse before someone else showed up, so it may be said that he had an intimate relationship with death from very early in his life. His father died under mysterious circumstances a few days later. After his parents’ deaths, Edgar was taken in by a wealthy tobacco exporter and his wife, John and Frances Allan, who sent him to boarding schools and took him to live in England for 5 years.
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Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1809, the second son of travelling actors. There is no record of his father after 1810 and his mother died a year later from tuberculosis. Edgar, split up from his elder brother and younger sister, was taken into the household of a Virginian tobacco merchant, John Allan, whose name Poe adopted from 1824 onwards. He went to England with the Allan family in 1845 and while there attended a school in Stoke Newington. Poe's relationship with his foster father, uneasy at the best of times, was put under great strain when they returned to Richmond, Virginia, and in 1826 Allan refused to support Poe financially at Virginia University. Poe resorted to gambling in an attempt to try and support himself, but was forced to leave college.
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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. When he was just three, his actor parents died, leaving Poe to be raised by the Allan family in Virginia. A challenging youth may have contributed to his active imagination, for Poe took prose where it had never gone before. He died on October 7, 1849.
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Independent of mind and spirit, Edgar A Poe founded and edited a number of literary magazines, and for most of his life was more famous for his criticism and his championing of American letters, than for his own writing. Poe did more than any previous writer to establish the American short story as a distinct genre and, as well as his raising of the horror story to a high literary standard, he can be credited with pioneering Science Fiction and with the invention of the modern detective story. Astonishingly, between 1835 and 1842 Poe wrote several stories in which the hero marries his beautiful cousin, who then gets ill and dies. In January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of tuberculosis. Poe achieved his greatest success as a writer with the publication of The Raven and other poems in 1845, but remained in poverty. Virginia died on 30th January 1847.
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Poe enlisted in the army using the name Edgar Allan Perry. He had considered himself an outcast. He became a sergeant. His stepmother died and Poe thought that he would be John Allan's heir. Poe made peace with his stepfather and went back to Richmond, Virginia. He enrolled in West Point, the academy for army officers in New York State.
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As Edgar entered his teenage years... bad feelings developed between him and John Allan. Allan disapproved of Edgar's ambition to become a writer, thought he was ungrateful, and seems to have decided to cut Poe out of his will. When, in 1826, Poe entered the newly opened University of Virginia, he had so little money that he turned to gambling in an attempt to make money. In eight months he lost two thousand dollars. Allan's refusal to help him led to a final break between the two, and in March 1827 Poe went out on his own.
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