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On this date an American writer, poet, critic and editor was born in Boston. -
His father left and his mother died from Tuberculosis. -
Jhon Allan took him in and they lived in Richmond, Virginia. -
They travelled for business and Edgar studied. -
The Poes returned to Richmond. -
By age 13 he was a poet, but his headmaster and John disagreed. -
- He went to the University of Virginia.
- He turned to gambling but ended up in debt.
- His fiancée Sarah Elmira Royster had become engaged to someone else.
- Poe moved to Boston.
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He joined the U.S army and published his first poems. -
His adoptive mother died from tuberculosis. -
- He reconciled with his father, John helped him enter the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
- He published new volumes of his poems.
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He was kicked out of the US Military Academy -
He published his third book and moved to New York. -
He won a prize and began to published short stories. -
John Allan died and left Poe out of his will. -
He got a job as an editor and lived with his aunt. -
He started out as a critic and published some of his work, meanwhile he was having a tough time with alcohol.
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He married his 13 years old cousin, Virgnia Eliza Clemm. -
He continued to published stories.
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“Murders in the Rue Morgue” made him the father of modern crime and detective fiction. -
He won a literary prize for The Gold Bug. -
He moved to New York and published a joke in The New York Sun. -
He released The Raven, a poem that made him famous. -
His wife died from TUBERCULOSIS!! -
Poe died of alcoholism at 40 years old after his health and finances took a dive.