Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809 to two actors. Orphaned of his mother before the age of three, he grew up in Richmond with the merchant John Allan, who raised him without adopting him and with whom he eventually broke. For lack of money, he left the University of Virginia, enlisted in the army, entered West Point and was dismissed from it. He then lived off the magazines he edited or contributed to, and his severe reviews made him feared. In 1836 he married his young cousin Virginia Clemm, whom he lost in 1847. A pioneer of detective fiction, he died in Baltimore in 1849, at forty, in circumstances that have remained obscure.

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• PoetryThe RavenEdgar Allan Poe · 1845LiteraturePublic domain