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Edgar Allan Poe
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Born	Edgar Poe (1809-01-19)January 19, 1809 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	October 7, 1849(1849-10-07) (aged 40) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Resting place	Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore
Spouse	\n Virginia Eliza Clemm \n (m. 1836; died 1847)
Parents	David Poe Jr. Elizabeth Arnold
Relatives	William Henry Leonard Poe (brother) Rosalie Mackenzie Poe (sister)
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Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe (n\u00e9 Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 \u2013 October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature.^[1] Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. In addition, he is credited with contributing significantly to the emergence of science fiction.^[2] He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living by writing alone, which resulted in a financially difficult life and career.^[3]\n

Poe was born in Boston. He was the second child of actors David and Elizabeth \"Eliza\" Poe.^[4] His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when Eliza died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but he lived with them well into young adulthood. Poe attended the University of Virginia but left after only a year due to a lack of money. He frequently quarreled with John Allan over the funds needed to continue his education as well as his gambling debts. In 1827, having enlisted in the United States Army under the assumed name of Edgar A. Perry, he published his first collection, Tamerlane and Other Poems, which was credited only to \"a Bostonian\". Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement after the death of Allan's wife, Frances, in 1829. However, Poe later failed as an officer cadet at West Point, declared his intention to become a writer, primarily of poems, and parted ways with Allan.\n

Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In 1836, when he was 27, he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. She died of tuberculosis in 1847.\n

In January 1845, he published his poem \"The Raven\" to instant success. He planned for years to produce his own journal, The Penn, later renamed The Stylus. But before it began publishing, Poe died in Baltimore in 1849, aged 40, under mysterious circumstances. The cause of his death remains unknown and has been attributed to many causes, including disease, alcoholism, substance abuse, and suicide.^[5]\n

Poe's works influenced the development of literature throughout the world and even impacted such specialized fields as cosmology and cryptography. Since his death, he and his writings have appeared throughout popular culture in such fields as art, photography, literary allusions, music, motion pictures, and television. Several of his homes are dedicated museums. In addition, The Mystery Writers of America presents an annual Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.\n

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Poems	\n \"Tamerlane\" (1827) \n \"Al Aaraaf\" (1829) \n \"Sonnet to Science\" (1829) \n \"To Helen\" (1831) \n \"The City in the Sea\" (1831) \n \"The Haunted Palace\" (1839) \n \"The Conqueror Worm\" (1843) \n \"Lenore\" (1843) \n \"Eulalie\" (1843) \n \"The Raven\" (1845) \n \"Ulalume\" (1847) \n \"A Dream Within a Dream\" (1849) \n \"Eldorado\" (1849) \n \"The Bells\" (1849) \n \"Annabel Lee\" (1849) \n
Tales	\n \"Metzengerstein\" (1832) \n \"The Duc de L'Omelette\" (1832) \n \"Bon-Bon\" (1832) \n \"MS. Found in a Bottle\" (1833) \n \"Berenice\" (1835) \n \"Morella\" (1835) \n \"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall\" (1835) \n \"Ligeia\" (1838) \n \"A Predicament\" (1838) \n \"The Devil in the Belfry\" (1839) \n \"The Man That Was Used Up\" (1839) \n \"The Fall of the House of Usher\" (1839) \n \"William Wilson\" (1839) \n \"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion\" (1839) \n \"The Business Man\" (1840) \n \"The Man of the Crowd\" (1840) \n \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" (1841) \n \"A Descent into the Maelstr\u00f6m\" (1841) \n \"Never Bet the Devil Your Head\" (1841) \n \"Eleonora\" (1841) \n \"The Oval Portrait\" (1842) \n \"The Masque of the Red Death\" (1842) \n \"The Mystery of Marie Rog\u00eat\" (1842) \n \"The Pit and the Pendulum\" (1842) \n \"The Tell-Tale Heart\" (1843) \n \"The Gold-Bug\" (1843) \n \"The Black Cat\" (1843) \n \"The Spectacles\" (1844) \n \"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains\" (1844) \n \"The Premature Burial\" (1844) \n \"The Oblong Box\" (1844) \n \"The Angel of the Odd\" (1844) \n \"Thou Art the Man\" (1844) \n \"The Purloined Letter\" (1844) \n \"Some Words with a Mummy\" (1845) \n \"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade\" (1845) \n \"The Imp of the Perverse\" (1845) \n \"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether\" (1845) \n \"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar\" (1845) \n \"The Cask of Amontillado\" (1846) \n \"Loss of Breath\" (1846) \n \"Hop-Frog\" (1849) \n
Essays	\n \"Maelzel's Chess Player\" (1836) \n \"The Philosophy of Furniture\" (1840) \n \"Morning on the Wissahiccon\" (1844) \n \"The Philosophy of Composition\" (1846) \n \"The Poetic Principle\" (1846) \n Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) \n
Novels	\n The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837) \n The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840) \n
Collections	\n Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) \n Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) \n
Play	\n Politian (1835) \n
Other	\n The Conchologist's First Book (1839) \n The Balloon-Hoax (1844) \n The Light-House (1849) \n
Related	\n Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife) \n Eliza Poe (mother) \n David Poe Jr. (father) \n William Henry Poe (brother) \n Rosalie Mackenzie Poe (sister) \n Poe Museum \n Poe Cottage \n Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum \n National Historic Site \n The Stylus magazine \n Death \n Edgar Awards \n In popular culture\n film and television \n music \n Poe Toaster \n Tales of Mystery & Imagination \n
Portrayals	\n Edgar Allen Poe (1909 film) \n The Raven (1915 film) \n The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942 film) \n The Man with a Cloak (1951 film) \n Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight (2004 play) \n The Raven (2012 film) \n The Pale Blue Eye (2022 film) \n

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