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In 1826 Poe left Richmond to attend the University of Virginia, where he excelled in his classes while accumulating considerable debt.
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His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
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Edgar went to Boston and joined the U.S. Army in 1827.
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Dissatisfied with his low pay and lack of editorial control at the Messenger, Poe moved to New York City. In the wake of the financial crisis known as the “Panic of 1837,”
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After a year in New York, Poe moved to Philadelphia in 1838 and wrote for a number of different magazines.
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In the face of poverty Poe was still able to find solace at home with his wife and mother-in-law, but tragedy struck in 1842 when Poe’s wife contracted tuberculosis, the disease that had already claimed Poe’s mother, brother, and foster mother.
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Always in search of better opportunities, Poe moved to New York again in 1844 and introduced himself to the city by perpetrating a hoax.
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The January 1845 publication of “The Raven” made Poe a household name.
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. It was there, in the winter of 1847 that Virginia died at the age of twenty-four.
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Poe died on October 7, 1849 at the age of forty.
