Edgar Allan Poe Biography
� Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts.  His father David Poe Jr. and his mother Elizabeth Hopkins Poe.  They both probably died when he was three years old.
� Taken to a merchant of Richmond, John, Allan attended Manor School at Stoke Newington.
� He never legally go adopted, Edgar took Allan�s name for his middle name.  He attended the University of Virginia.
� In 1827 he joined the U.S. Army as a soldier under assumed name and age.  In 1830 he entered West Point and was discharged the following year for intentional neglect of his duties.
� Not that much is known about his life during this time.  In 1833 he lived in Baltimore with his father�s sister.  After winning $50 for a short story that he wrote �MS Found in a Bottle�
� He started a career as a stag member of various magazines, such as Southern Literary Messenger Burton�s Gentleman�s Magazine, and Graham�s Magazine.
� In 1836 he married his 13 year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, she burst a blood vessel in 1842, and remained as an invalid until she died from tuberculosis five years later.
� After his wife�s death, he began to lose his struggle against drinking and drugs.  He addressed a famous poem, �Annabel Lee� in 1849 for his wife
� His very first collection, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, appeared in 1840.  It contains one of his most magnificent work, �The Fall of the House of Usher�
� During the 1840s his best selling work was The Conchologist�s First Book (1839) A poem of dark love, �The Raven�, brought him national fame, when it appeared in 1845.
� The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) and The Purloined Letter are some of Poe�s most famous and most bought detective stories.  He was also one of the most prolific literary journalist ever in the American History
� He kept on writing hard until he died on October 7, 1849 in Baltimore.
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