INGLES

AMERICAN WRITER

EDGAR  ALLAN  

POE

BIOGRAPY

v HE WAS BORN IN BOSTON ESTADOS UNIDOS ON JANUARY 19TH, 1809, IN BALTIMORE.

 HE WAS A POET, NOVELIST AND CRITIC.

                 HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST SHORT STORY WRITERS.

             HE LOST HIS PARENTS WHO WERE ACTORS.                           HE STUDIED IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND IN THE                     UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

        HE TRAVELED TO BOSTON AND PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK “TAMERLANE” IN 1827.

  HE WAS A SOLDIER FOR TWO YEARS

  HE PUBLISHED HIS SECOND BOOK “AL  AARAAF” IN 1829

  

 HE PUBLISHED HIS THIRD BOOK “POEMS” IN 1831.

  

 HE MARRIED HIS NIECE VIRGINIA CLEMM.

  

 HIS WIFE VIRGINIA CLEMM DIED ON JANUARY 30, 1847. 

VIRGINIA CLEMM DIED IN A COTTAGE IN FORDHAM, WITHIN THE BRONX NEIGHBORHOOD, NEW YORK.

HE REMARRIED SARAH ELMIRA ROYSTER ON OCTOBER 17TH, 1849

  

 ON OCTOBER 3, 1849, POE WAS FOUND ON THE STREETS OF BALTIMORE IN A STATE OF DELIRIUM

  

 HE PUBLISHED HIS LAST BOOK, THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS (1845),

  

MASTER OF THE TERROR AND FOUNDER OF THE KIND POLICE 

  

 HE IS RECOGNIZED FOR HIS ROLE AS PRECURSOR IN THE SCIENCE-FICTION LITERATURE BY SOME OF THE STORIES CONTAINED IN THE EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIONS.

 HE WROTE ABOUT SIXTY STORIES, PLUS A SERIES OF POEMS

 HIS LAST WORDS WERE "MAY GOD HELP MY POOR SOUL."

  HE DIED OCTOBER 7, 1849, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES 

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