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											Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 
									
										
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								Image above: 
								Edgar Allan Poe, 
								photograph taken in 1848 
								Library of 
								Congress. Click image to enlarge. |  
                  
 Edgar Allan Poe was a brilliant writer and editor, and a man who 
					could appreciate a good glass of 
            sherry. He was born in Boston and buried in Baltimore.
 
            Poe 
            wrote poetry and fiction. In fact, he became the father of detective stories. 
              
            The Writings of Edgar 
			Allan Poe 
									
									1827 Tamerlane1829 Al Aaraaf
 1831 The City and the Sea
 1831 Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
 1831 Israfel
 1831 To Helen
 1833
  Four Beasts in One (Epimanes) 1837 Politan
 1838 Ligeia
 1838 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
 1839 The Journal of Julius Rodman
 1839 The Fall of the House of Usher
 1839 Haunted Palace
 1840 The Conqueror Worm
 1840 The Assignation
 1840 Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
 1840 Berenice
 1840
  The 
            Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal 1840 Man of the Crowd
 1841
  The Murders in the Rue Morgue 1841 The Masque of the Red Death
 1841 A Descent into the Maelstrom
 1842 The Mystery of Marie Roget
 1843
  The Gold Bug 1844 The Balloon Hoax
 1845 The Imp of Perverse
 1845 The Black Cat
 1845 Tales
 1845 Eleonora
 1845 The Pit and the Pendulum
 1845 The Premature Burial
 1845 The Purloined Letter
 1845 The Raven
 1845 The Tell-Tale Heart
 1846 The Literati of New York City
 1846 The Philosophy of Composition
 1846 The Cask of Amontillado
 1847 The Domain of Arnheim
 1847 Ulalume
 1848 Eureka
 1849 Annabel Lee
 
              
            The Family of Edgar 
			Allan Poe 
            Edgar Allan Poe's father was
			 David Poe Jr. His mother was 
			 Elizabeth 
            Arnold Poe. Both, father and mother, were actors. 
            In 1835, Edgar Allan Poe married
			 Virginia Clemm. Virginia was his cousin 
            and died in 1847. 
            In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe got engaged to
			 Elmira Royster.
 
            
             
 EDGAR ALLAN POE HOUSE & GRAVE - MAP
 
            
 
 
            Edgar Allan Poe Short 
			Biography 
									
									1815 - 1820 Scotland and England 
									1826 University of Virginia 
									Joins army 
									West Point 
									1835 Editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, Richmond 
									1839 coeditor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in Philadelphia. 
									
									 
									1844 subeditor of the New York Mirror 
									
									 
									1845 editor of the Broadway Journal 
									1848 went to Providence, Rhode Island 
									1849 Death in 
									Baltimore
 
              
            
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            out the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, Pennsylvania. 
									  
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