Edgar+Allan+Poe

= **__Birth and Early Life:__ ** = Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were actors. He had one brother and one sister, Rosalie and William Henry. After his parents died, a wealthy merchant named John Allan, took Poe in. John Allan and Poe did not get along. Although the Allan's were well off, John Allan would not give Poe much money to survive n University. Poe began to gamble, and lost all of his money. When Allan would not let him go back to the University, they got in a fight and Poe left without money. It is thought to believe that Allan sent him some money later on, and he supposedly traveled to Boston with it. While he was there, he published Tamerlane, and a few other short stories. These books are now so rare that they are sold for around $200,000.00. = = = = =__**Adulthood: **__=  He was poor and needed money, so under his assumed name of Edgar A. Perry, he joined the United States Army. After serving for two years he earned the rank of Sergeant Major. After this in the year 1829, he moved to Baltimore with his aunt, his cousin, and his older brother Henry. Poe's foster mother passed away shortly later that year. Her dying request was for John Allan to put aside the differences between he and Poe. A short while later, his brother Henry died of tuberculosis in August, 1931. Poe started to work on writing prose. He won  a prize for a short story named 'The Manuscript found in a Bottle', after he began to publish short stories. That award got him a job as the assistant editor on the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. He was fired a few weeks later for being drunk though. When he returned to Baltimore he secretly took his cousin Virginia as his wife, on September 22nd, 1835. Virginia was only 13. He, along with his aunt and Virginia, went back to Richmond. Poe got his job at the Southern Literary Messenger back, on the promise of good behavior. He wrote very much for the magazine. On May 16, 1836 he publicly married Virginia Clemm and left the Southern Literary Messenger. In 1847, Virginia died also from tuberculosis. This left Poe broken. He drank even more heavily and was more unstable. Eventually he started to court Sarah Helen Whitman, but it didn't turn into anything because of his behavior and Sarah's mother meddling. After this he returned to Richmond and started to court his childhood sweetheart Sarah Elmira Royster. It is often focused on that he abused opium, an illegal substance, a lot along with his alcoholism. He is known for this, but he was so much more than just your average drunk. Poe later became one of the greatest short story writers of his time and our. Poe wrote dark, gothic, creepy, and maybe to some people scary stories. Poe was a writer who enjoyed suspense, and mystery. These are two of the things that made him such a great author. = **__Some of his short stories: __** = > = __Quotes: __ =
 * The Tell Tale Heart
 * The Raven
 * The Black Cat
 * The Man of The Crowd
 * Annabel Lee
 * The Haunted Palace
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">To My Mother
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Alone
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Poe Posing for a picture. An illustration of Poe in his study
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